Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 3

If the robber was a solitary he would, for lack of someone else, have talked greatly to Fionn.

Who acts: robber · What happens: be, talk, lack · To what, where: solitary, Fionn, someone

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 (robber), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 solitary	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robber	det
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 solitary	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 solitary	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 solitary	det
6	solitary	solitary	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talked	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 would	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 solitary	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lack	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 lack	case
11	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 solitary	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 someone	case
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 lack	nmod
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 someone	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 solitary	punct
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 talked	aux
17	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
18	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	17 talked	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Fionn	case
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 talked	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the robber	a solitary and lack of someone			tree rules
2	talk	present · perfect			Fionn	greatly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to fionn=Co-Agent
3	lack			someone			nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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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