Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 4

He would have shown his weapons and demonstrated how he used them, and with what slash he chipped his victim, and with what slice he chopped him.

Who acts: den · What happens: show, demonstrate, use, chip, chop · To what, where: weapons, victim, Fionn

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 (den), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shown	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shown	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shown	aux
4	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 weapons	nmod:poss
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shown	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 demonstrated	cc
8	demonstrated	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shown	conj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 used	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 demonstrated	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 used	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chipped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chipped	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 slash	case
16	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 slash	det
17	slash	slash	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chipped	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chipped	nsubj
19	chipped	chip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 demonstrated	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 victim	nmod:poss
21	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chipped	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chopped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 chopped	cc
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 slice	case
25	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	26 slice	det
26	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chopped	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chopped	nsubj
28	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 demonstrated	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chopped	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	would · perfect	den	den's weapons		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent weapon=Recipient
2	demonstrate	past	den not said here			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
3	use	past	den	weapons = weapon		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	chip	past	den	den's victim	with what slash	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent victim=Patient with slash=Instrument
5	chop	past	den	Fionn	with what slice	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with slice=Instrument

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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