Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 36

But if all those trials had been gathered into one vast calamity they would not equal one half of the rage and catastrophe of his war with Morgan.

Who acts: trials, King · What happens: gather, not equal, war · To what, where: trials, one half

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 (trials, King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 equal	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 gathered	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 trials	det:predet
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 trials	det
5	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathered	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gathered	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 gathered	aux:pass
8	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 equal	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 calamity	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 calamity	nummod
11	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 calamity	amod
12	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gathered	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 equal	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 equal	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 equal	advmod
16	equal	equal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 half	nummod
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 equal	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 rage	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rage	det
21	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 half	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 catastrophe	cc
23	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rage	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 war	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 war	nmod:poss
26	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 catastrophe	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 Morgan	case
28	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 war	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 equal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		all trials	into one vast calamity	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient into calamity=Co-Patient
2	not equal	would	trials = trial	one half of the rage and catastrophe of King's war with Morgan		tree rules
3	war		King		with Morgan	nom war «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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