Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 32

“If the son of a sinless couple can be found and if his blood be mixed with the soll of Tara the blight and ruin will depart from Ireland,” said the magicians.

Who acts: blight, magicians · What happens: find, mix, depart, say · To what, where: son, blood, soll, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (blight, magicians), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 couple	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 couple	det
7	sinless	sinless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 couple	amod
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 said	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mixed	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 mixed	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 blood	nmod:poss
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mixed	nsubj:pass
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 mixed	aux:pass
17	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 found	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 soll	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soll	det
20	soll	soll	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mixed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Tara	case
22	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 soll	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blight	det
24	blight	blight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 depart	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ruin	cc
26	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blight	conj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 depart	aux
28	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 soll	acl:relcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 Ireland	case
30	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 depart	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 magicians	det
35	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 said	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can · passive		the son of a sinless couple			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	mix a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive · passive		way's blood		with the soll of Tara	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with soll=Co-Patient
3	depart in a quote	future	the blight and ruin	the soll of Tara not said here	Ireland		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soll=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the magicians				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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