Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 8

It had come from Faery, out of the Shi’ of Aillen mac Midna, and it would be brought back again later on between the same man’s shoulder-blades.

Who acts: spear · What happens: come, bring back · To what, where: Faery, spear, shoulder blades

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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Faery	case
5	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ’	punct
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 ’	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 ’	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ’	det
10	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ’	compound
11	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mac	case
13	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mac	compound
14	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ’	nmod
15	Midna	Midna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mac	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brought	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj:pass
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 brought	aux:pass
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 come	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	23 again	advmod
23	again	again	ADV	_	24 later	advmod
24	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 brought	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	33 blades	case
26	between	between	ADP	_	33 blades	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blades	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 man	case
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blades	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 shoulder	punct
33	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	spear			Faery		out the Shi ’ of Aillen mac	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from faery=Initial_Location out '=Destination
2	bring back	would · passive		spear		the same man's shoulder blades		late property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on blade=Destination

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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