Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 7

He was more than himself because he was one who had long disappeared from the world of men.

Who acts: husband · What happens: be, disappear · To what, where: one, world

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 more	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 more	cop
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 one	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 more	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 one	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 disappeared	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disappeared	aux
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 disappeared	advmod
13	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 one	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disappeared	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 men	case
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 world	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	husband			than husband; more property	tree rules
2	is a	past	husband	one			tree rules
3	disappear	past · perfect			the world of men	long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location

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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