Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

Indeed he was the foster-brother of Time, and so disdainful of the bitter god that he did not even disdain him; he leaped over the scythe, he dodged under it, and the sole occasions on which Time laughs is when he chances on Tuan, the son of Cairill, the son of Muredac Red-neck.

Who acts: gentleman, Time · What happens: be, not disdain, leap, dodge, laugh · To what, where: foster brother, disdainful, scythe, sole occasions, Tuan

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 (gentleman, Time), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 brother	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brother	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brother	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
5	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 foster	punct
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Time	case
9	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 god	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 god	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 god	advmod
13	disdainful	disdainful	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 god	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 god	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 god	det
16	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 god	amod
17	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 disdain	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 disdain	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 disdain	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 disdain	advmod
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 disdain	advmod
23	disdain	disdain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 god	csubj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 disdain	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 leaped	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leaped	nsubj
27	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 god	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 scythe	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 scythe	det
30	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leaped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dodged	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dodged	nsubj
33	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 leaped	conj
34	under	under	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dodged	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 occasions	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 occasions	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 occasions	det
39	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 occasions	amod
40	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dodged	obl
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 laughs	obl
43	Time	Time	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 laughs	nsubj
44	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 occasions	acl:relcl
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 chances	cop
46	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 chances	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 chances	nsubj
48	chances	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 laughs	ccomp
49	on	on	ADP	_	50 Tuan	case
50	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 chances	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 son	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 son	det
53	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 Tuan	appos
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 Cairill	case
55	Cairill	Cairill	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 son	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 son	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 son	det
58	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 Tuan	appos
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 Muredac	case
60	Muredac	Muredac	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 son	nmod
61	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Muredac	flat
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 neck	punct
63	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 Muredac	appos
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	gentleman	the foster brother and the bitter god		time	indeed property	tree rules
2	not disdain	past · do-support	gentleman	disdainful				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	leap	past	gentleman		the scythe			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over scythe=Trajectory
4	dodge	past	gentleman	the sole occasions	scythe			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	present	Time		the sole occasions			tree rules
6	is	present	gentleman		Tuan		chance property	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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