Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 6

He thought too that some day he would die, and the thought was not unpleasant, for one half of his life was away in the territories of the King of Leinster, and the half that he kept in himself had no spice in it.

Who acts: pleasure, thought, one half, half · What happens: think, die, not be, be, keep, have · To what, where: territories, half, spice, thought · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (pleasure, thought, one half, half), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 thought	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 die	mark
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	obl:unmarked
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 die	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unpleasant	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 unpleasant	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thought	det
13	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unpleasant	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 unpleasant	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 unpleasant	advmod
16	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 away	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	25 away	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 half	nummod
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 away	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 half	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 away	cop
25	away	away	ADV	_	16 unpleasant	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 territories	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 territories	det
28	territories	territory	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 away	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 King	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 territories	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Leinster	case
33	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 King	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 had	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 half	det
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	43 had	nsubj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 kept	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kept	nsubj
40	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 half	acl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 himself	case
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 kept	obl
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 spice	det
45	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 had	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	pleasure					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die	would	pleasure			day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	not is	past	the thought				unpleasant property	tree rules
4	is	past	one half of pleasure's life		the territories of the King of Leinster		away property	tree rules
5	keep	past	pleasure	the half not said here			in pleasure	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent half=Theme in himself=Location
6	have	past	the half	no spice	thought			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=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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