Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 18

Therefore she lost no opportunity of reminding Mongan of his promise, and on each occasion he renewed the promise and put it back to another time.

Who acts: Lady, opportunity, Mongan, promise · What happens: lose, remind, renew, put back, promise · To what, where: opportunity, Mongan, promise, occasion

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 (Lady, opportunity, Mongan, promise), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 lost	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 opportunity	det
5	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 reminding	mark
7	reminding	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 opportunity	acl
8	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reminding	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 promise	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 promise	nmod:poss
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Mongan	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 renewed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 renewed	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 occasion	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 occasion	det
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 renewed	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 renewed	nsubj
18	renewed	renew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 promise	det
20	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 renewed	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 promise	acl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 put	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Lady	no opportunity				therefore property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Eventuality
2	remind speech: other	gerund	no opportunity not said here		Mongan of Mongan's promise				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mongan=Recipient
3	renew	past	Mongan	the promise		each occasion			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent promise=Patient
4	put back	infinitive	the promise not said here	promise			time		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
5	promise		Mongan						nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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