Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 27

And he could at last have told which brother of the great brotherhood was making the noise he heard at any moment.

Who acts: brother, existence · What happens: tell, make, hear · To what, where: noise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, existence), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 could	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 could	obl
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 brother	det
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 making	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 brotherhood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brotherhood	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brotherhood	amod
13	brotherhood	brotherhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 making	aux
15	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 noise	det
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 making	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 noise	acl:relcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could · perfect				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past · progressive	which brother of the great brotherhood	the noise		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product
3	hear	past	existence	the noise not said here	moment	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus

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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