Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6

Of Cona’n Mael mac Morna his brother, gruff as a badger, bearded like a boar, bald as a crow, and with a tongue that could manage an insult where another man would not find even a stammer.

Who acts: tongue, man · What happens: beard, manage, not find · To what, where: insult, stammer

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 (tongue, man), 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	_	4 mac	case
2	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mac	compound
3	Mael	Mael	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cona’n	flat
4	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gruff	obl
5	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mac	flat
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gruff	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gruff	punct
9	gruff	gruff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 badger	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 badger	det
12	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gruff	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bearded	punct
14	bearded	beard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gruff	parataxis
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 boar	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 boar	det
17	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bearded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bald	punct
19	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boar	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 crow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crow	det
22	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bald	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tongue	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tongue	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 tongue	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tongue	det
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gruff	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 manage	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 manage	aux
30	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tongue	acl:relcl
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 insult	det
32	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 manage	obj
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 find	advmod
34	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 find	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 find	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 find	advmod
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 insult	acl:relcl
39	even	even	ADV	_	41 stammer	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 stammer	det
41	stammer	stammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 find	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gruff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beard	participle			like a boar	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	manage	could	a tongue	a insult		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insult=Theme
3	not find	would	another man	a stammer		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stammer=Topic

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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