Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 60

Perhaps it was on Fionn’s account he dreaded the sons of Morna, but no one knows what Fionn thought of him for he never thereafter spoke of his step-father.

Who acts: protection, Fionn, one · What happens: be, dread, know, think, not speak · To what, where: account, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (protection, Fionn, one), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 account	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 account	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 account	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 account	case
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 account	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Fionn	case
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dreaded	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dreaded	nsubj
9	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sons	det
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dreaded	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Morna	case
13	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sons	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knows	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 knows	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knows	nsubj
18	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dreaded	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 thought	obj
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knows	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	obl
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 spoke	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spoke	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 spoke	advmod
27	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	28 spoke	advmod
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 father	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
31	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 father	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 step	punct
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoke	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dreaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	protection		Fionn's account	perhaps property	tree rules
2	dread	past	Fionn	the sons of Morna			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
3	know	present	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	Fionn			of father	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	not speak speech: other	past	Fionn			of father's step father; thereafter property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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