Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 22

And from the roof they would look down on the motionless figure below, and speculate on many things, including the staunchness of man, the qualities of their master, and even the possibility that the new gods might be as powerful as the old.

Who acts: men, new gods · What happens: look down, speculate, be · To what, where: many things, possibility

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 (men, new gods), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 roof	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 look	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 figure	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 figure	det
11	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 figure	amod
12	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
13	below	below	ADV	_	12 figure	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speculate	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 speculate	cc
16	speculate	speculate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 look	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 things	case
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 speculate	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 staunchness	punct
21	including	including	ADP	_	23 staunchness	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 staunchness	det
23	staunchness	staunchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 things	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 staunchness	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 qualities	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 qualities	det
28	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 staunchness	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 master	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 master	nmod:poss
31	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 qualities	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 possibility	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 possibility	cc
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 possibility	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 possibility	det
36	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 powerful	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 gods	det
39	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gods	amod
40	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 powerful	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 powerful	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 powerful	cop
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 powerful	advmod
44	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 possibility	acl
45	as	as	ADP	_	47 old	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 old	det
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 powerful	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look down	would	men = man			on the motionless figure; from the roof	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from roof=Theme
2	speculate	infinitive	men = man not said here		many things		vn invest-13.5.4 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	is	might	the new gods	the possibility not said here		as the old; powerful property	tree rules

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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