Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 14

Therefore, with the sorrow of the king, all Ireland was in grief, and it was the wish of every person that he should marry again.

Who acts: Ireland, judgement, king · What happens: be, marry, sorrow · To what, where: grief, wish, person

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ireland, judgement, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	14 grief	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Therefore	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sorrow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sorrow	det
5	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grief	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sorrow	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sorrow	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Ireland	det
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 grief	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grief	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 grief	case
14	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wish	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wish	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wish	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wish	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wish	det
20	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grief	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 person	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 person	det
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wish	nmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 marry	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	aux
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 person	acl
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 marry	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 grief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all Ireland		grief		with the sorrow of the king; therefore property	tree rules
2	is a	past	judgement	the wish			of every person	tree rules
3	marry	should	Ireland	every person not said here		again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
4	sorrow		the king					nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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