Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 8
When he saw a peaceful man he insulted him, and when he met a man who was not peaceful he insulted him.
Who acts: tongue, man · What happens: see, insult, meet, not be · To what, where: peaceful man, brother, man
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 insulted | nsubj |
| 8 | insulted | insult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 insulted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 met | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 peaceful | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 peaceful | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 peaceful | advmod |
| 20 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 insulted | nsubj |
| 22 | insulted | insult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 peaceful | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 insulted | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | tongue | a peaceful man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | insult | past | tongue | brother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | tongue | a man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | a man | peaceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | insult | past | tongue | brother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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