Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 26

In his own sphere, in his own element, he might have outrun Fionn, but this was Fionn’s world, Fionn’s element, and the flying god was not gross enough to outstrip him.

Who acts: Aillen, this, flying god · What happens: outrun, be, fly, not be, outstrip · To what, where: Fionn, own sphere, world, Aillen

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aillen, this, flying god), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 sphere	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sphere	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sphere	amod
4	sphere	sphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 outrun	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 element	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 element	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 element	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 element	amod
9	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sphere	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sphere	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 outrun	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 outrun	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 outrun	aux
14	outrun	outrun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 outrun	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 world	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 world	cc
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 world	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 world	cop
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 world	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Fionn	case
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 outrun	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 element	punct
24	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 element	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Fionn	case
26	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 world	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gross	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gross	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 god	det
30	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 god	amod
31	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gross	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gross	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 gross	advmod
34	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 outrun	parataxis
35	enough	enough	ADV	_	34 gross	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 outstrip	mark
37	outstrip	outstrip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 gross	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 outstrip	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 outrun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	outrun	might · perfect	Aillen	Fionn	Aillen's own sphere and Aillen's own element		tree rules
2	is a	past	this	Fionn's world and Fionn's element			tree rules
3	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past	the flying god			enough, gross property	tree rules
5	outstrip	to-infinitive	the flying god not said here	Aillen			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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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