Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

Of Morna himself, the huge-shouldered, stern-eyed, violent Connachtman; and of his sons--young Goll Mor mac Morna in particular, as huge-shouldered as his father, as fierce in the onset, but merry-eyed when the other was grim, and bubbling with a laughter that made men forgive even his butcheries.

Who acts: other, laughter, men · What happens: shoulder, be, bubble, make, forgive · To what, where: young Goll, men, butcheries

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 (other, laughter, men), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 Morna	case
2	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Morna	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Connachtman	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Connachtman	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shouldered	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 huge	punct
8	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Connachtman	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eyed	punct
10	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyed	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 stern	punct
12	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Connachtman	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Connachtman	punct
14	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Connachtman	amod
15	Connachtman	Connachtman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Morna	appos
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sons	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sons	cc
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sons	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sons	nmod:poss
20	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Connachtman	appos
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 Goll	punct
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Goll	amod
23	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sons	nmod
24	Mor	Mor	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Goll	flat
25	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Goll	flat
26	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Goll	flat
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 particular	case
28	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Goll	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shouldered	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 shouldered	mark
31	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shouldered	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 huge	punct
33	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Goll	acl:relcl
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 father	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shouldered	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fierce	punct
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 fierce	case
39	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shouldered	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 onset	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 onset	det
42	onset	onset	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fierce	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 eyed	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 eyed	cc
45	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 eyed	amod
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 merry	punct
47	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Goll	parataxis
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 grim	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 other	det
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 grim	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 grim	cop
52	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 eyed	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 bubbling	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 bubbling	cc
55	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 grim	conj
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 laughter	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 laughter	det
58	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 bubbling	obl
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 made	nsubj
60	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 laughter	acl:relcl
61	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 made	obj
62	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 made	xcomp
63	even	even	ADV	_	65 butcheries	advmod
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 butcheries	nmod:poss
65	butcheries	butchery	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 forgive	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Connachtman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoulder	participle				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	shoulder	participle		young Goll in particular not said here	as Morna's father	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the other		grim property	tree rules
4	bubble	gerund	the other not said here		with a laughter	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with laughter=Theme
5	make	past	a laughter	men		tree rules
6	forgive	infinitive	men not said here	Morna's butcheries		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butchery=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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