Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 28

The time must have been nigh when he would think of taking the world itself by the nose, to haul it over tussocks and drag it into his pen; for he was of the breed in whom mastery is born, and who are good masters.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, think, take, haul, drag, bear · To what, where: world, tussocks, pen, mastery, good masters

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nigh	obl:unmarked
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 nigh	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 nigh	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 nigh	cop
6	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 think	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 think	aux
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nigh	ccomp
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 taking	mark
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 think	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obj
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 world	nmod:unmarked
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 nose	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nose	det
18	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 haul	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 haul	mark
21	haul	haul	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 think	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 haul	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 tussocks	case
24	tussocks	tussock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 haul	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drag	cc
26	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 haul	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drag	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 pen	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pen	nmod:poss
30	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drag	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 breed	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	37 breed	case
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 breed	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 breed	cop
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 breed	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 breed	det
37	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nigh	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 whom	case
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 breed	nmod
40	mastery	mastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 born	nsubj:pass
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 born	aux:pass
42	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 whom	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 masters	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 masters	cc
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 masters	nsubj
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 masters	cop
47	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 masters	amod
48	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nigh	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nigh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must · perfect				time	nigh property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	would	Fionn					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	Fionn not said here	the world world			by the nose	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
4	haul	to-infinitive		world	tussocks			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	drag	present		world	Fionn's pen			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is	past	Fionn				for the breed	tree rules
7	bear	present · passive		mastery				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	is a	present		good masters				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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