Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 58
Where she could go to no man knew, for she had been ban-ished from the Many-Coloured Land and could not return there.
Who acts: Tara, man · What happens: go, know, ish, not return · To what, where: Tara, Coloured Land
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 (Tara, man), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ished | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 ished | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ished | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ished | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 ished | aux:pass |
| 14 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ished | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ban | punct |
| 16 | ished | ish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 go | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Land | det |
| 19 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Coloured | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Many | punct |
| 21 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Land | amod |
| 22 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ished | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 return | cc |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 return | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 return | advmod |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 return | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | could | Tara | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | no man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | ish | past · perfect · passive | Tara | the Coloured Land | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not return | could | Tara not said here | there | 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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