Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6

The sons of Morna had been fighting and intriguing for a long time to oust her husband, Uail, from the captaincy of the Fianna of Ireland, and they had ousted him at last by killing him.

Who acts: sons · What happens: fight, intrigue, oust, kill · To what, where: husband, captaincy, last

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 (sons), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sons	det
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fighting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Morna	case
4	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sons	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fighting	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fighting	aux
7	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 intriguing	cc
9	intriguing	intrigue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fighting	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 intriguing	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 oust	mark
15	oust	oust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 intriguing	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 oust	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Uail	punct
19	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 husband	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 captaincy	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 captaincy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 captaincy	det
23	captaincy	captaincy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 oust	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Fianna	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fianna	det
26	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 captaincy	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Ireland	case
28	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Fianna	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ousted	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ousted	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ousted	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ousted	aux
33	ousted	oust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fighting	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ousted	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 last	case
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ousted	obl
37	by	by	SCONJ	_	38 killing	mark
38	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 ousted	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 killing	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fighting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fight	past · perfect · progressive	the sons of Morna				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	intrigue	gerund	the sons of Morna not said here			time	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	oust	to-infinitive	the sons of Morna not said here	Morna's husband	the captaincy of the Fianna of Ireland		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent husband=Theme from captaincy=Source
4	oust	past · perfect	sons = son	husband	last		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	kill	gerund	sons = son not said here	husband			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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