Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 47

“When you hear the great man of the Shi’ coming, take the wrappings off the head of the spear and bend your face over it; the heat of the spear, the stench of it, all its pernicious and acrid qualities will prevent you from going to sleep.”

Who acts: you, great man, pernicious qualities, spear · What happens: hear, come, take, bend, prevent, go · To what, where: great man, wrappings, face, spear, you

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, great man, pernicious qualities, spear), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 hear	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 take	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Shi	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Shi	det
10	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 Shi	punct
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hear	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
14	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wrappings	det
16	wrappings	wrapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 take	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 spear	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spear	det
22	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 head	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bend	cc
24	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 take	conj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod:poss
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bend	obj
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bend	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 heat	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 heat	det
31	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 spear	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spear	det
34	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heat	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stench	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stench	det
37	stench	stench	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heat	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stench	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 prevent	punct
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 qualities	det:predet
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 qualities	nmod:poss
43	pernicious	pernicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 qualities	amod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 acrid	cc
45	acrid	acrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pernicious	conj
46	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 prevent	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 prevent	aux
48	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 prevent	obj
50	from	from	SCONJ	_	51 going	mark
51	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 prevent	advcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 sleep	mark
53	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 going	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present	you	the great man of the Shi			tree rules
2	come in a quote	gerund	the great man of the Shi not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the wrappings		off the head of the spear	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wrapping=Theme heat=Destination
4	bend in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your face	spear		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent face=Theme over it=Location
5	prevent in a quote	future	spear's pernicious qualities	you			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme
6	go in a quote	gerund	spear's pernicious qualities not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	spear's pernicious qualities not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	heat in a quote		the spear				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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