Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 26
He had taken to the wilds when clann-Baiscne was broken, and he was at war with a world that had dared to kill his Chief.
Who acts: robber · What happens: take, break, be, dare, kill · To what, where: clann, war, that, Chief
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 (robber), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wilds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wilds | det |
| 6 | wilds | wild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taken | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 broken | mark |
| 8 | clann | clann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Baiscne | punct |
| 10 | Baiscne | Baiscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 clann | flat |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 broken | aux:pass |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 taken | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 war | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 war | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 war | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 war | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 war | case |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 war | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 dared | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dared | aux |
| 24 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 war | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 kill | mark |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dared | xcomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Chief | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 kill | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | robber | to the wilds result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wild=Result | ||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | clann | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | robber | war | with a world | tree rules | |||
| 4 | dare | past · perfect · passive | that | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | robber's Chief | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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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