Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

Now Fionn did not dislike the man of Ulster, but either he did not know them well or else he knew them too well, for he made a curious stipulation before consenting to the marriage.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: not dislike, not know, know, make, consent · To what, where: man, rights, curious stipulation

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 dislike	advmod
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dislike	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dislike	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dislike	advmod
5	dislike	dislike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dislike	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Ulster	case
9	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
12	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 know	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dislike	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	obj
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 know	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 knew	cc
20	else	else	ADV	_	22 knew	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dislike	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	obj
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 well	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 knew	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dislike	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 stipulation	det
31	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stipulation	amod
32	stipulation	stipulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 consenting	mark
34	consenting	consent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 made	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 marriage	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 marriage	det
37	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 consenting	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dislike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not dislike	past · do-support	Fionn	the man of Ulster	now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	not know	past · do-support	Fionn	rights = right		either, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	know	past	Fionn	rights = right		else, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	make	past	Fionn	a curious stipulation			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stipulation=Product
5	consent	gerund	Fionn not said here			to the marriage	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=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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