Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16

Or, perhaps, he too had a band, although the record does not say so; but kill them he did, and they died that way.

Who acts: youngster, record, poets · What happens: have, not say, kill, do, die · To what, where: band, poets, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngster, record, poets), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 perhaps	punct
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 band	det
9	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
11	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 say	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 record	det
13	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 say	advmod
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	16 say	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 kill	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 kill	cc
20	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kill	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kill	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 died	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 died	nsubj
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	youngster	a band	perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient
2	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the record			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	kill	infinitive	the record not said here	poets = poet		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	do	past	youngster			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	die	past	poets = poet	that way		tree rules

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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