Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 33

By what arts she coaxed Curoi to give up his wand it matters not, enough that she was able to return in triumph to Tara.

Who acts: arts, it, Becuma · What happens: coax, give up, not matter, be, return · To what, where: Curoi, wand, Tara, triumph

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 (arts, it, 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 coaxed	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 coaxed	nsubj
5	coaxed	coax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
6	Curoi	Curoi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 coaxed	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 coaxed	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 give	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wand	nmod:poss
11	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 matters	nsubj
13	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wand	acl:relcl
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 matters	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 enough	punct
16	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wand	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 able	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 able	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 enough	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 return	mark
22	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 triumph	case
24	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 return	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Tara	case
26	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 return	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	coax	past	arts	Curoi				tree rules
2	give up	to-infinitive	arts not said here	Art's wand				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Source
3	not matter	present	it	Art's wand not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	Becuma				able property	tree rules
5	return	to-infinitive	Becuma not said here		Tara	triumph		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tara=Result

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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