Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 49

It may be that his mother was watching the match and that he could not but exhibit his skill before her.

Who acts: chief, Fionn · What happens: be, not exhibit · To what, where: skill

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 (chief, Fionn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:525): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	8 watching	nsubj:outer
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 watching	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 watching	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 watching	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watching	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 watching	aux
8	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 match	det
10	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watching	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 exhibit	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 exhibit	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exhibit	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 exhibit	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 exhibit	advmod
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 exhibit	cc
17	exhibit	exhibit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 watching	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 skill	nmod:poss
19	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 exhibit	obj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exhibit	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 watching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may · progressive	chief					watch property	tree rules
2	not exhibit	could	Fionn	Fionn's skill			before occasion		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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