Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 8

This sense of separateness is vanity, and is the bed of all wrong-doing.

Who acts: sense · What happens: be, do, sense · To what, where: bed, separateness

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 (sense), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sense	det
2	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanity	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 separateness	case
4	separateness	separateness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sense	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vanity	cop
6	vanity	vanity	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bed	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bed	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanity	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 bed	nmod
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 doing	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
16	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 all	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vanity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	this sense of separateness		vanity property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the bed	of all	tree rules
3	do	gerund				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sense			separateness		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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