Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 29

The poets and magicians met to consider why this disaster should have befallen the country and by their arts they discovered the truth about the king’s wife, and that she was Becuma of the White Skin, and they discovered also the cause of her banishment from the Many-Coloured Land that is beyond the sea, which is beyond even the grave.

Who acts: poets, harvest, Coloured Land, sea · What happens: meet, consider, befall, discover, be, cause · To what, where: disaster, truth, Becuma, cause, Coloured Land, banishment

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poets, harvest, Coloured Land, sea), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poets	det
2	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 met	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 magicians	cc
4	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poets	conj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 consider	mark
7	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 met	xcomp
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 befallen	advmod
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 disaster	det
10	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 befallen	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 befallen	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 befallen	aux
13	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 consider	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 befallen	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 discovered	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 arts	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arts	nmod:poss
19	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 discovered	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 discovered	nsubj
21	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 befallen	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 truth	det
23	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 discovered	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	28 wife	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wife	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 king	case
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 truth	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Becuma	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Becuma	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 Becuma	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 Becuma	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 Becuma	cop
34	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 Skin	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Skin	det
37	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Skin	amod
38	Skin	Skin	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Becuma	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 discovered	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 discovered	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 discovered	nsubj
42	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 Becuma	acl:relcl
43	also	also	ADV	_	45 cause	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 cause	det
45	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 discovered	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 banishment	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 banishment	nmod:poss
48	banishment	banishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cause	nmod
49	from	from	ADP	_	54 Land	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Land	det
51	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Coloured	amod
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 Many	punct
53	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Land	amod
54	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 discovered	obl
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 sea	nsubj
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 sea	cop
57	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	59 sea	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sea	det
59	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 Land	acl:relcl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 grave	punct
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	66 grave	nsubj
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 grave	cop
63	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	66 grave	case
64	even	even	ADV	_	66 grave	advmod
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 grave	det
66	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sea	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the poets and magicians				tree rules
2	consider	to-infinitive	the poets and magicians not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	befall	should · perfect · passive		this disaster			tree rules
4	discover	past	poets = poet	the truth		by poets's arts; about the king's wife	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
5	is a	past	harvest	Becuma		of the White Skin	tree rules
6	discover	past	poets = poet	the cause of harvest's banishment	the Coloured Land		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
7	is	present	the Coloured Land			beyond the sea and the grave	tree rules
8	is	present	the sea and the grave			beyond the grave	tree rules
9	cause			harvest's banishment			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
10	banish		harvest				nom banishment «state 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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