Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5

But the term of man and woman, of king or queen, is set in the stars, and there is no escaping Doom for any one; so, when her time came, Eithne died.

Who acts: escaping Doom, time, Eithne · What happens: set, be, escape, come, die, term · To what, where: term, stars, man

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 (escaping Doom, time, Eithne), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 set	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 man	case
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 term	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 woman	cc
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 king	case
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	appos
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 queen	cc
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 term	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux:pass
15	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 stars	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stars	det
18	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 set	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 is	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 set	advcl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 Doom	det
24	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 Doom	amod
25	Doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 one	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Doom	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 time	nmod:poss
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 died	punct
37	Eithne	Eithne	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 died	nsubj
38	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 came	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	set	present · passive		the term of man and woman	the stars	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in star=Destination
2	be	present	no escaping Doom for any one		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	escape	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	Doom's time			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	past	Eithne			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	term			man and woman		nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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