Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

Now Finnian could not abide that any person should resist both the Gospel and himself, and he proceeded to force the stronghold by peaceful but powerful methods.

Who acts: Finnian, person · What happens: not abide, resist, proceed, force · To what, where: Gospel, stronghold

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, person), 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 abide	advmod
2	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 abide	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 abide	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 abide	advmod
5	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 resist	mark
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resist	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 resist	aux
10	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 abide	advcl
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 Gospel	cc:preconj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gospel	det
13	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 resist	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 himself	cc
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 Gospel	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 proceeded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 proceeded	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 proceeded	nsubj
19	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 abide	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 force	mark
21	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 proceeded	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stronghold	det
23	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 force	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	28 methods	case
25	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 methods	amod
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 powerful	cc
27	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 peaceful	conj
28	methods	method	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 force	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 abide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not abide	could	Finnian		now		tree rules
2	resist	should	any person	the Gospel			tree rules
3	proceed	past	Finnian				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	force	to-infinitive	Finnian not said here	the stronghold		by peaceful methods	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stronghold=Recipient

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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