Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 3

It is likely they were junior poets come to the end of a year’s training, and returning to their own province to see again the people at home, and to be wondered at and exclaimed at as they exhibited bits of the knowledge which they had brought from the great schools.

Who acts: band, poets, returning, year · What happens: be, come, return, see, wonder, exclaim · To what, where: end, people, home, bits, knowledge, great schools · 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 (band, poets, returning, year), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
6	junior	junior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poets	amod
7	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 training	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 training	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 year	case
16	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
19	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 see	csubj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 province	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 province	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 province	amod
23	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returning	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	parataxis
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 home	case
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wondered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wondered	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	35 wondered	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 wondered	aux:pass
35	wondered	wonder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 see	parataxis
36	at	at	ADP	_	35 wondered	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 exclaimed	cc
38	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 wondered	conj
39	at	at	ADP	_	38 exclaimed	obl
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 exhibited	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 exhibited	nsubj
42	exhibited	exhibit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 exclaimed	advcl
43	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 exhibited	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 knowledge	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 knowledge	det
46	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bits	nmod
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 brought	nsubj:pass
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 brought	nsubj:pass
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 brought	aux
50	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 knowledge	acl:relcl
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 schools	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 schools	det
53	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 schools	amod
54	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 brought	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	band				likely property	tree rules
2	come	past	poets = poet			to the end of a year's training		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
3	return	gerund					to poets's own province result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to province=Result
4	see	to-infinitive	returning	the people	home	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
5	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive · passive						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»
6	exclaim speech: express	participle						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	exhibit	past	poets = poet	bits of the knowledge				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
8	bring	past · perfect · passive		the knowledge	the great schools			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from school=Initial_Location
9	train		a year					nom training «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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