Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 11

The knowledge that she gleaned from those listenings tormented her far more than it satisfied her, for the names of other women were continually on his lips, sometimes in terms of dear affection, sometimes in accents of anger or despair, and in his sleep he spoke familiarly of people whom the story-tellers told of, but who had been dead for centuries.

Who acts: lament, knowledge, dream, husband · What happens: glean, torment, satisfy, be, speak, tell · To what, where: knowledge, listenings, more, lament, lips, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lament, knowledge, dream, husband), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knowledge	det
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tormented	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 gleaned	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gleaned	nsubj
5	gleaned	glean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knowledge	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 listenings	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 listenings	det
8	listenings	listening	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gleaned	obl
9	tormented	torment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 more	nsubj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 tormented	obj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 satisfied	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 satisfied	nsubj
15	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 more	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 satisfied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 names	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 names	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 names	det
20	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tormented	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 women	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 women	amod
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lips	obl
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lips	cop
25	continually	continually	ADV	_	28 lips	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 lips	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lips	nmod:poss
28	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 names	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 terms	punct
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 terms	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 terms	case
32	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lips	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 affection	case
34	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 affection	amod
35	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 terms	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 accents	punct
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 accents	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 accents	case
39	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 affection	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 anger	case
41	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 accents	nmod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 despair	cc
43	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 anger	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 spoke	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 spoke	cc
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 sleep	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 sleep	nmod:poss
48	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 spoke	obl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 spoke	nsubj
50	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tormented	parataxis
51	familiarly	familiarly	ADV	_	50 spoke	advmod
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 people	case
53	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 spoke	obl
54	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 people	acl:relcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 tellers	det
56	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 tellers	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 story	punct
58	tellers	teller	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 whom	nsubj
59	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 tellers	acl
60	of	of	ADP	_	59 told	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 dead	punct
62	but	but	CCONJ	_	66 dead	cc
63	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	66 dead	nsubj
64	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 dead	aux
65	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	66 dead	cop
66	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tormented	parataxis
67	for	for	ADP	_	68 centuries	case
68	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 dead	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tormented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glean	past	lament	the knowledge not said here	that listenings			vn learn-14-2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knowledge=Topic from listening=Source
2	torment	past	the knowledge	more			for the names	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer
3	satisfy	past	dream	lament				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	is	past			husband's lips and terms of dear affection in accents of anger or despair		of other women; continually property	tree rules
5	speak speech: other	past	husband		husband's sleep		of people; familiarly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	participle		the story tellers not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past · perfect				century	dead property	tree rules
8	term			dear affection in accents of anger or despair				nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	accent			anger or despair				nom accent «communication transitive»: of=patient
10	sleep		husband					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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