Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19

For not only did he beat them at swimming, he beat their best at running and jumping, and when the sport degenerated into violence, as it was bound to, the roughness of Fionn would be ten times as rough as the roughness of the roughest rough they could put forward.

Who acts: name, sport, roughness, others · What happens: not beat, beat, run, jump, degenerate, bind · To what, where: others, swimming, best, violence, sport, ten times

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, sport, roughness, others), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	6 beat	mark
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 beat	advmod
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beat	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beat	nsubj
6	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beat	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beat	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 swimming	case
9	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beat	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beat	nsubj
12	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 best	nmod:poss
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 beat	obj
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 running	mark
16	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 beat	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 jumping	cc
18	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 running	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 degenerated	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 degenerated	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 degenerated	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sport	det
23	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 degenerated	nsubj
24	degenerated	degenerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 beat	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 violence	case
26	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 degenerated	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bound	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 bound	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bound	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bound	aux:pass
31	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 degenerated	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	31 bound	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 times	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roughness	det
35	roughness	roughness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 times	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Fionn	case
37	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 roughness	nmod
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 times	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 times	cop
40	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 times	nummod
41	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 degenerated	obl:unmarked
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 rough	advmod
43	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 times	amod
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 roughness	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 roughness	det
46	roughness	roughness	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rough	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 rough	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 rough	det
49	roughest	rough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	50 rough	amod
50	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 roughness	acl:relcl
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 put	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 put	aux
53	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 rough	ccomp
54	forward	forward	ADV	_	53 put	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not beat	past · do-support	name	others = other	swimming		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	beat	past	name	others's best			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location good=Theme
3	run	gerund	name not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	jump	gerund	name not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	degenerate	participle	the sport		violence		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	bind	past · passive		sport			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	is a	would	the roughness of Fionn	ten times			tree rules
8	put forward	could	others = other			forward property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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