Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 12

However, the short and long of it was, with reverence be it spoken, that Fin heard Cucullin was coming to the Causeway to have a trial of strength with him; and he was seized with a very warm and sudden fit of affection for his wife, poor woman, leading a very lonely, uncomfortable life of it in his absence.

Who acts: Fin, Cucullin · What happens: be, speak, hear, come, have, seize · To what, where: short reverence, Causeway, trial, Cucullin, lonely uncomfortable life, absence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fin, Cucullin), 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	However	however	ADV	_	15 spoken	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reverence	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reverence	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 long	cc
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 short	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 long	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reverence	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reverence	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 reverence	case
12	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoken	nsubj:pass
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 spoken	aux:pass
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoken	nsubj:pass
15	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 Fin	det
18	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spoken	parataxis
20	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 coming	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 coming	aux
22	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 heard	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Causeway	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Causeway	det
25	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 coming	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 have	mark
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 coming	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 trial	det
29	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 strength	case
31	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trial	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 strength	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 seized	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seized	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seized	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 seized	aux:pass
38	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 heard	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	45 fit	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 fit	det
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 warm	advmod
42	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 fit	amod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sudden	cc
44	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 warm	conj
45	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seized	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 affection	case
47	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fit	nmod
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 wife	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 wife	nmod:poss
50	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seized	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 woman	punct
52	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 woman	amod
53	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wife	appos
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 leading	punct
55	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 seized	advcl
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 life	det
57	very	very	ADV	_	58 lonely	advmod
58	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 life	amod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lonely	punct
60	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 life	amod
61	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 leading	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 it	case
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 life	nmod
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 absence	case
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 absence	nmod:poss
66	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 leading	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				with the short reverence	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	infinitive · passive		the short reverence		however property	tree rules
3	hear	past	that Fin				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come	past · progressive	Cucullin		the Causeway		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to causeway=Initial_Location
5	have	to-infinitive	Cucullin not said here	a trial of strength with Cucullin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Patient
6	seize	past · passive		Cucullin		with a warm fit of affection; for Cucullin's wife	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for wife=Beneficiary
7	lead	gerund		a lonely uncomfortable life of sauce	Cucullin's absence		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in absence=Destination
8	try			strength with Cucullin			nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient
9	absent		Cucullin				nom absence «state 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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