Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 12

At what precise instant he forgot his dead consort we do not know, but it is certain that at this moment his mind was no longer burdened with that dear and lovely memory.

Who acts: king, we, consort · What happens: forget, not know, be, burden, mind · To what, where: dead consort, precise instant, mind

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, we, consort), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 instant	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 instant	nsubj
3	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 instant	amod
4	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forgot	nsubj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 consort	nmod:poss
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 consort	amod
9	consort	consort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	obj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 consort	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 certain	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 certain	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 certain	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 certain	cop
18	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forgot	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 burdened	mark
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burdened	obl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mind	nmod:poss
24	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burdened	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 burdened	aux:pass
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 burdened	advmod
28	burdened	burden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 certain	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	34 memory	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 memory	det
31	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 memory	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lovely	cc
33	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dear	conj
34	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burdened	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	king	king's dead consort	precise instant			tree rules
2	not know	present · do-support	we	king's dead consort not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer consort=Stimulus
3	is	present	consort				certain property	tree rules
4	burden	past · passive		king's mind		moment	with that dear memory; long property	vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with memory=Theme
5	mind		king					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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