Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 18

Those who had been the champions before he came would marshal each other, and, by social pressure, would muster all the others against him; so that in the end not a friendly eye was turned on Fionn in that assembly.

Who acts: name, champions, social pressure · What happens: be, come, marshal, muster, turn · To what, where: champions, each, others, end

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 (name, champions, social pressure), 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 champions	det
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 been	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 champions	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 champions	det
6	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 marshal	nsubj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 marshal	advcl
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 marshal	aux
11	marshal	marshal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 marshal	obj
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 muster	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 muster	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pressure	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 pressure	case
18	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pressure	amod
19	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 muster	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pressure	punct
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 muster	aux
22	muster	muster	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 marshal	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 others	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 others	det
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 muster	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 others	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 turned	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 turned	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 end	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 end	det
33	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 turned	obl
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 eye	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eye	det
36	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eye	amod
37	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 end	nmod
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 turned	aux:pass
39	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 marshal	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 Fionn	case
41	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 turned	obl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 assembly	case
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 assembly	det
44	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 turned	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 marshal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	participle		that champions			tree rules
2	come	past	name				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	marshal	would	that champions	each			tree rules
4	muster	would	social pressure	all others		against name	tree rules
5	turn	past · passive	that champions not said here		in the end a friendly eye	on Fionn; in that assembly	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: in end=Source on fionn=Trajectory in assembly=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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