Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 10

There were others: wild Connachtmen all, as untameable, as unaccountable as their own wonderful countryside.

Who acts: others · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Connachtmen	punct
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Connachtmen	amod
6	Connachtmen	Connachtmen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 others	nmod
7	all	all	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 untameable	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 untameable	case
10	untameable	untameable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unaccountable	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 unaccountable	case
13	unaccountable	unaccountable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 untameable	conj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 countryside	mark
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 countryside	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 countryside	amod
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 countryside	amod
18	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unaccountable	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	others wild Connachtmen			there		all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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