Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 35
“They will not be banished until you have banished their cause.”
Who acts: you, evils · What happens: not banish, banish, cause · To what, where: evils, cause
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, evils), 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 | _ | 6 banished | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 banished | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 banished | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 banished | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 banished | aux:pass |
| 6 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 banished | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 banished | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 banished | aux |
| 10 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 banished | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cause | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 banished | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 banished | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 banished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not banish in a quote | future · passive | evils = evil | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | banish in a quote | present · perfect | you | evils's cause | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cause in a quote | evils = evil | nom cause «event 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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