Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 3

It was she who was responsible for the ills which had come on Ireland, and we may wonder why she brought these plagues and droughts to what was now her own country.

Who acts: flower, ills, we, trouble · What happens: be, come, wonder, bring · To what, where: Ireland, plagues · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (flower, ills, we, trouble), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 responsible	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 responsible	cop
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 responsible	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 responsible	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 responsible	cop
6	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 ills	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ills	det
9	ills	ill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 responsible	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 come	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 ills	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 Ireland	case
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wonder	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wonder	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wonder	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wonder	aux
19	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 responsible	conj
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 brought	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brought	nsubj
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wonder	ccomp
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 plagues	det
24	plagues	plague	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 brought	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 droughts	cc
26	droughts	drought	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plagues	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	33 country	case
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 country	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 country	cop
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 country	advmod
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 country	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 country	amod
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 responsible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	flower				for the ills; responsible property	tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	the ills		Ireland			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ireland=Location
3	wonder speech: ask	may	we					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	bring	past	trouble	this plagues and droughts				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plague=Theme
5	is	past				now	to trouble's own country	tree rules

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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