Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 28

It was a woeful combat, for there was no craft or sagacity unknown to her, and Art would infallibly have perished by her hand but that her days were numbered, her star was out, and her time had come.

Who acts: armour, craft, hand, star, time · What happens: be, perish, number, come · To what, where: woeful combat, Art, days

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (armour, craft, hand, star), 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	5 combat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 combat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 combat	det
4	woeful	woeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 combat	amod
5	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 combat	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 craft	det
11	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sagacity	cc
13	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 craft	conj
14	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sagacity	amod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 unknown	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 perished	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 perished	cc
19	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 perished	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 perished	aux
21	infallibly	infallibly	ADV	_	23 perished	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 perished	aux
23	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 was	parataxis
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 perished	obl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 come	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 numbered	mark
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 days	nmod:poss
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 numbered	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 numbered	aux:pass
32	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 come	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 out	punct
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 star	nmod:poss
35	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 out	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 out	cop
37	out	out	ADV	_	32 numbered	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 come	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 come	cc
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 time	nmod:poss
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 come	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
43	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 hand	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 combat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	armour	a woeful combat			tree rules
2	be	past	no craft or sagacity		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	perish	would · perfect · passive	girl's hand	Art		infallibly property	tree rules
4	number	past · passive		girl's days			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	girl's star			out property	tree rules
6	come	past · perfect	girl's time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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