Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 22
For on land or air there is always something excessive and hindering; as arms that swing at the sides of a man, and which the mind must remember.
Who acts: something, arms, mind · What happens: be, hinder, swing, remember · To what, where: sides
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, arms, mind), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 air | cc |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 land | conj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 is | advmod |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hindering | cc |
| 12 | hindering | hinder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 excessive | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 arms | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 is | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 swing | nsubj |
| 17 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 arms | acl:relcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 sides | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sides | det |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sides | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 remember | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 remember | cc |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 remember | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mind | det |
| 28 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 remember | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 remember | aux |
| 30 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 is | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | something | there | for land or air; always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hinder | gerund | something not said here | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | swing | present | arms | the sides of a man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at side=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | remember | must | the mind | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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