Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 35

Some broken soldier tramping home to his people will find it out; a herd seeking his strayed cattle or a band of travelling musicians will get the wind of it.

Who acts: broken soldier, herd · What happens: break, tramp, find out, seek, stray, get · To what, where: people, secret, strayed cattle, wind

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (broken soldier, herd), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 soldier	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	nsubj
4	tramping	tramp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 soldier	acl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 tramping	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 people	nmod:poss
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tramping	obl
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 find	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 herd	det
15	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	nsubj
16	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 herd	acl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cattle	nmod:poss
18	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 cattle	amod
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seeking	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 band	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 band	det
22	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cattle	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 musicians	case
24	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 musicians	compound
25	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 band	nmod
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 find	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wind	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	tramp	gerund	some broken soldier not said here		soldier's people	home property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to people=Destination
3	find out	future	some broken soldier	secret			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	seek	gerund	a herd not said here	soldier's strayed cattle or a band of travelling musicians			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
5	stray	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	future	a herd	the wind of secret			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus
7	wind			secret			nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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