Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 4

It was in the illness which comes from longing and despair that he sat one day looking on a world that was black although the sun shone, and that was lean and unwholesome although autumn fruits were heavy on the earth and the joys of harvest were about him.

Who acts: despair, illness, pleasure, one day, world, sun · What happens: be, come, sit, look, shine, joy · To what, where: illness, longing, despair, earth, harvest

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (despair, illness, pleasure, one day), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 illness	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 illness	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 illness	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 illness	det
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 illness	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 longing	case
9	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 despair	cc
11	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 longing	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 sat	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 despair	acl:relcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl:unmarked
17	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 day	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 black	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 black	cop
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 world	acl:relcl
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	27 shone	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun	det
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shone	nsubj
27	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 black	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lean	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lean	cc
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 lean	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lean	cop
32	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 illness	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 unwholesome	cc
34	unwholesome	unwholesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lean	conj
35	although	although	SCONJ	_	39 heavy	mark
36	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fruits	compound
37	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 heavy	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 heavy	cop
39	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lean	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 earth	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 earth	det
42	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 heavy	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 him	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 joys	det
45	joys	joy	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 him	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 harvest	case
47	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 joys	nmod
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 him	cop
49	about	about	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 heavy	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 illness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	despair		the illness			tree rules
2	come	present	the illness		longing and despair			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from longing=Initial_Location
3	sit	past	pleasure	despair not said here		day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location despair=Theme
4	look	gerund	one day not said here				on a world	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on world=Theme
5	is	past	a world				black property	tree rules
6	shine	past	the sun					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	that				lean property	tree rules
8	be		that not said here					tree rules
9	is	past	autumn fruits		the earth		heavy property	tree rules
10	is	past	the joys of harvest				about pleasure	tree rules
11	joy			harvest				nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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