Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 8

His lament had been sung and his funeral games played many, many years before, and Bro’tiarna sensed in him secrets, experiences, knowledges in which she could have no part, and for which she was greedily envious.

Who acts: funeral games, Bro’tiarna, lily, husband · What happens: sing, play, sense, have, be, lament · To what, where: lament, secrets, part, knowledges

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 (funeral games, Bro’tiarna, lily, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 lament	nmod:poss
2	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sung	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sung	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sung	aux:pass
5	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 played	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 games	nmod:poss
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 games	compound
9	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sung	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 years	punct
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 before	obl:unmarked
15	before	before	ADV	_	10 played	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sensed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sensed	cc
18	Bro’tiarna	Bro'tiarna	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sensed	nsubj
19	sensed	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sung	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sensed	obl
22	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sensed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 experiences	punct
24	experiences	experience	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 secrets	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knowledges	punct
26	knowledges	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 secrets	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 have	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 knowledges	acl:relcl
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 part	det
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 envious	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 envious	cc
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 envious	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 envious	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 envious	cop
40	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	41 envious	advmod
41	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sensed	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · perfect · passive		husband's lament			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	play	past	husband's funeral games			before property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sense	past	Bro’tiarna	secrets and experiences and knowledges		in husband	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
4	have	could	lily	no part	knowledges		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
5	is	past	lily			envious, greedily property	tree rules
6	lament		husband				nom lament «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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