Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 13

Such an invitation is a challenge; it is almost, among boys, a declaration of war.

Who acts: invitation · What happens: be, declare · To what, where: challenge, war

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invitation), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 invitation	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 invitation	det
3	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 challenge	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 challenge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 challenge	det
6	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 boys	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 boys	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boys	cop
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 boys	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 almost	punct
12	among	among	ADP	_	13 boys	case
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 challenge	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declaration	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 declaration	det
16	declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 challenge	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 war	case
18	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 declaration	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 challenge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	such invitation	a challenge and boys and a declaration of war		tree rules
2	is	present	invitation		among boys; almost property	tree rules
3	declare			war		nom declaration «communication 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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