Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15

Or perhaps she had really desired the son instead of the father, and her thwarted desire had perpetuated itself as hate.

Who acts: Becuma · What happens: desire, thwart, perpetuate · To what, where: son, thwarted desire

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 desired	cc
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 desired	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 desired	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 desired	aux
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 desired	advmod
6	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 desired	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 father	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 desired	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 perpetuated	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 perpetuated	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 desire	nmod:poss
16	thwarted	thwart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 desire	amod
17	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perpetuated	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 perpetuated	aux
19	perpetuated	perpetuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 desired	conj
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 perpetuated	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 hate	case
22	hate	hate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perpetuated	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	desire	past · perfect	Becuma	the son	instead the father; perhaps property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme
2	thwart	participle				tree rules
3	perpetuate	past · perfect · passive		Becuma's thwarted desire	as hate	tree rules
4	desire		Becuma			nom desire «feeling 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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