Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 20

But he did not know until afterwards that the black-faced, tufty-headed person was his father Mananna’n, although that was the fact.

Who acts: friend, headed person, that · What happens: not know, be · To what, where: father, fact

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, headed person, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 know	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	until	until	ADP	_	7 afterwards	case
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 know	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 faced	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 faced	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 faced	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 black	punct
12	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 father	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faced	punct
14	tufty	tufty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 headed	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 tufty	punct
16	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 person	amod
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 father	cop
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	parataxis
21	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 father	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fact	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	27 fact	mark
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 fact	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fact	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fact	det
27	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	friend		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	headed person	friend's father and the fact	tree rules
3	is a	past	that	the fact	tree rules

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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