Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

But of those adversaries it was the first he redoubted.

Who acts: house, gentleman · What happens: be, redoubt

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 (house, gentleman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 first	cc
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 adversaries	case
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 adversaries	det
4	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 first	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 first	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 first	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 first	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 redoubted	nsubj
10	redoubted	redoubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 first	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	house					of that adversaries; first property	tree rules
2	redoubt	past	gentleman						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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