Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 39

In the night he might have fought them; his ears against theirs; his noiseless feet against their lurking ones; his knowledge of the wood against their legion: but during the day he had no chance.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: fight, have · To what, where: bush, chance

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fought	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fought	aux
7	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fought	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 ears	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ears	nmod:poss
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fought	obl
12	against	against	ADP	_	13 theirs	case
13	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ears	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 feet	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
16	noiseless	noiseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feet	amod
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ears	conj
18	against	against	ADP	_	21 ones	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ones	nmod:poss
20	lurking	lurking	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ones	compound
21	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feet	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 knowledge	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 knowledge	nmod:poss
24	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knowledge	nmod
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 legion	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 legion	nmod:poss
30	legion	legion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wood	nmod
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
33	during	during	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	parataxis
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 chance	det
39	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	might · perfect	Fionn	bush			night	Fionn's ears against bush and Fionn's noiseless feet against bush's lurking ones obl; Fionn's knowledge of the wood against bush's legion obl	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	have	past	Fionn	no chance			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=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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