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title: Sundered from her belongings, no woman is tranquil, her heart is not… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sundered from her belongings, no woman is tranquil, her heart is not truly at ease, however her mind may function, so that under the broad sky or in the house of another she is not the competent, precise individual which she becomes when she sees again her household in order and her domestic require
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 4

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Sundered from her belongings, no woman is tranquil, her heart is not truly at ease, however her mind may function, so that under the broad sky or in the house of another she is not the competent, precise individual which she becomes when she sees again her household in order and her domestic requirements at her hand.

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**Who acts:** woman, heart, mind, light, competent precise individual · **What happens:** sunder, be, not be, function, become, see · **To what, where:** ease, competent precise individual, household, order

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, heart, mind, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:43:4
# text = Sundered from her belongings, no woman is tranquil, her heart is not truly at ease, however her mind may function, so that under the broad sky or in the house of another she is not the competent, precise individual which she becomes when she sees again her household in order and her domestic requirements at her hand.
1	Sundered	sunder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	belongings	belonging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	tranquil	tranquil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	however	however	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	function	function	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nmod	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	competent	competent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	50	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
51	again	again	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	requirements	requirement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	_
60	at	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sunder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | from light's belongings | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from belonging=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | no woman |  |  |  |  | tranquil *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | light's heart |  |  | ease |  | truly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **function** | may | light's mind |  |  |  |  | so the broad sky or the house of another; however *property* | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | light | the competent precise individual |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | present | the competent precise individual |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **see** | present | light | light's household |  | order and light's domestic requirements | again | at light's hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer household=Stimulus |
| 8 | **mind** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **require** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom requirement «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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