Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 31

She went thence to the Shi’ ruled over by Eogabal, and although this lord would not admit her, his daughter Aine’, who was her foster-sister, let her into Faery.

Who acts: Becuma, lord, Aine · What happens: go, rule over, not admit, be, let · To what, where: Shi ’, Becuma, foster sister, Faery

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, lord, Aine), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thence	thence	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 ’	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ’	det
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ’	compound
7	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ’	acl
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 ruled	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 Eogabal	case
11	Eogabal	Eogabal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ruled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	19 admit	mark
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 lord	det
16	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 admit	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 admit	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 admit	advmod
19	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 admit	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Aine	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Aine	nmod:desc
24	Aine	Aine	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 admit	obl
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 Aine	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sister	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sister	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sister	cop
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sister	nmod:poss
30	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sister	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 foster	punct
32	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Aine	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 admit	punct
34	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 let	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 Faery	case
37	Faery	faery	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 let	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Becuma		the Shi ’	thence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to '=Initial_Location
2	rule over	participle		the Shi ’ not said here		by Eogabal; over property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not admit speech: other	would	this lord	Becuma		Aine lord's daughter obl	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	is a	past	Aine lord's daughter	Becuma's foster sister			tree rules
5	let	infinitive		Becuma	Faery		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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