Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 7

He would have seen Fiacuil’s great spear that had thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket, and that had to be kept wrapped up and tied down so that it would not kill people out of mere spitefulness.

Who acts: man, great spear, that, spear · What happens: see, have, keep, wrap up, tie down, not kill · To what, where: great spear, thirty rivets, people, mere spitefulness

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 (man, great spear, that, spear), 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 seen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Fiacuil	Fiacuil	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spear	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Fiacuil	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spear	amod
8	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spear	acl:relcl
11	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rivets	nummod
12	rivets	rivet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 gold	case
14	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gold	amod
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rivets	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 socket	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 socket	nmod:poss
18	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gold	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 kept	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 kept	aux:pass
25	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 had	xcomp
26	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 kept	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 wrapped	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tied	cc
29	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 kept	conj
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 tied	compound:prt
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 kill	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 kill	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 kill	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 kill	advmod
36	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tied	advcl
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 kill	obj
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 spitefulness	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 spitefulness	case
40	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 spitefulness	amod
41	spitefulness	spitefulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 kill	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	would · perfect	man	Fiacuil's great spear		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Stimulus
2	have	past	Fiacuil's great spear	thirty rivets of Arabian gold in gold's socket		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=Patient
3	have	past	that			tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive · passive	that not said here			tree rules
5	wrap up	participle	that not said here			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
6	tie down	participle	that not said here			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	not kill	would	spear	people	mere spitefulness	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent people=Theme out spitefulness=Initial_Location

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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