Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 13

In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman who followed ancient ways, and he demanded admittance in order that he might preach and prove the new God, and exorcise and terrify and banish even the memory of the old one; for to a god grown old Time is as ruthless as to a beggarman grown old.

Who acts: person, gentleman, god · What happens: come, follow, demand, preach, prove, exorcise · To what, where: stronghold, ancient ways, admittance, order, new God, memory

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, gentleman, god), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stronghold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stronghold	det
9	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 gentleman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gentleman	det
12	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stronghold	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 followed	nsubj
14	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gentleman	acl:relcl
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ways	amod
16	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 followed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 demanded	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 demanded	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 demanded	nsubj
20	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
21	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 demanded	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 order	case
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 demanded	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 preach	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 preach	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 preach	aux
27	preach	preach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 demanded	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 prove	cc
29	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 preach	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 God	det
31	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 God	amod
32	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 prove	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 exorcise	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 exorcise	cc
35	exorcise	exorcise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 terrify	cc
37	terrify	terrify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 exorcise	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 banish	cc
39	banish	banish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 terrify	conj
40	even	even	ADV	_	42 memory	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 memory	det
42	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 banish	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 one	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 one	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 one	amod
46	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 memory	nmod
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 god	punct
48	for	for	ADP	_	51 god	case
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 god	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 god	det
51	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ruthless	nsubj
52	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 god	acl
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Time	amod
54	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 grown	obl:unmarked
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 ruthless	cop
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 ruthless	advmod
57	ruthless	ruthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	parataxis
58	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	61 beggarman	case
59	to	to	ADP	_	58 as	fixed
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 beggarman	det
61	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ruthless	obl
62	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 beggarman	acl
63	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 grown	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	person		the stronghold of the gentleman	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stronghold=Initial_Location
2	follow	past	the gentleman	ancient ways				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	demand speech: request	past	person	admittance	order			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme admittance=Precondition
4	preach speech: other	might	person					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	prove	infinitive	person not said here	the new God				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
6	exorcise	infinitive	person not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
7	terrify	infinitive	person not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	banish	infinitive	person not said here	the memory of the old one				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme
9	grow	participle		a god not said here		time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is	present	a god				as a beggarman; ruthless property	tree rules
11	grow	participle		a beggarman not said here			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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