Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 28

It may be, too, that he knew how events would turn, for he had eaten the Salmon of Knowledge.

Who acts: blood, Fionn, events · What happens: be, know, turn, eat · To what, where: Salmon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (blood, Fionn, events), 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 be	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 too	punct
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 be	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 be	parataxis
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 turn	advmod
11	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turn	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	aux
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knew	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eaten	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 eaten	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eaten	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eaten	aux
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 turn	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Salmon	det
20	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 eaten	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Knowledge	case
22	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Salmon	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	be	may	blood		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	Fionn		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	turn	would	events		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	past · perfect	Fionn	the Salmon of Knowledge	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=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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