Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 27

It is likely that Fionn looked for help to the people of the Shi’ themselves, for, through his mother, he belonged to the tribes of Dana, although, on the father’s side, his blood was well compounded with mortal clay.

Who acts: lad, Fionn · What happens: be, look, belong, compound · To what, where: side, blood

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, Fionn), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 looked	mark
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 help	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Shi	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Shi	det
14	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	nmod
15	’	's	PART	_	14 Shi	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 Shi	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mother	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 mother	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 for	punct
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 mother	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 belonged	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 belonged	nsubj
25	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 tribes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tribes	det
28	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 belonged	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Dana	case
30	Dana	Dana	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tribes	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 side	punct
32	although	although	SCONJ	_	38 side	mark
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 side	punct
34	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 father	det
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 side	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 father	case
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 belonged	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 compounded	punct
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 blood	nmod:poss
41	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 compounded	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 compounded	aux:pass
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 compounded	advmod
44	compounded	compound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 belonged	parataxis
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 clay	case
46	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 clay	amod
47	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 compounded	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	lad			likely property	tree rules
2	look	past	Fionn			for help to the people of the Shi	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for help=Theme
3	belong	past	Fionn		the father's side	to the tribes of Dana	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	compound	past · passive		Fionn's blood		with mortal clay; well property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with clay=Co-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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