Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 5

Nine times he had come on this mission of revenge, but it is not to be supposed that he could actually destroy the holy city: the Ard-Ri’ and magicians could prevent that, but he could yet do a damage so considerable that it was worth Conn’s while to take special extra precautions against him, including the precaution of chance.

Who acts: Aillen, holy city, revenge · What happens: come, not be, destroy, prevent, do, be · To what, where: mission, revenge, that, damage, special extra precautions

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 (Aillen, holy city, revenge), 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	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 mission	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mission	det
8	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 revenge	case
10	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mission	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 supposed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 supposed	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 supposed	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 supposed	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 supposed	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	18 supposed	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 supposed	aux:pass
18	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 come	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 destroy	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 destroy	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 destroy	aux
22	actually	actually	ADV	_	23 destroy	advmod
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 supposed	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 city	det
25	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 city	amod
26	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 prevent	nsubj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Ri	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Ri	det
29	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Ri	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Ard	punct
31	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 city	appos
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 Ri	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 magicians	cc
34	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 city	conj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 prevent	aux
36	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 destroy	ccomp
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 prevent	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 do	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 do	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 do	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 do	aux
42	yet	yet	ADV	_	43 do	advmod
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 prevent	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 damage	det
45	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 do	obj
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 considerable	advmod
47	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 while	amod
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 worth	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 worth	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 worth	cop
51	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 while	amod
52	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 while	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 Conn	case
54	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 do	obl:unmarked
55	to	to	PART	_	56 take	mark
56	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 do	advcl
57	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 precautions	amod
58	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 precautions	amod
59	precautions	precaution	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 take	obj
60	against	against	ADP	_	61 him	case
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 take	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 precaution	punct
63	including	including	ADP	_	65 precaution	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 precaution	det
65	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 take	obl
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 chance	case
67	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 precaution	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Aillen		this mission of revenge	time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mission=Location
2	not is	present · passive		revenge			suppose property	tree rules
3	destroy	could	Aillen				actually property	tree rules
4	prevent	could	the holy city and magicians	that				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer that=Theme
5	do	could	Aillen	a damage		yet; while		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality
6	is	past	revenge				worth property	tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	Aillen not said here	special extra precautions			against Aillen; including the precaution of chance	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme against he=Destination

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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