Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 24

“If,” said one irritable guard, “if we buzzed a spear at the persistent stranger, or if one slung at him with a jagged pebble!”

Who acts: one irritable guard, we · What happens: say, buzz, sling · To what, where: spear, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one irritable guard, we), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 If	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 If	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 guard	nummod
7	irritable	irritable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 guard	amod
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 buzzed	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 buzzed	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 buzzed	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 buzzed	nsubj
13	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spear	det
15	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buzzed	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 stranger	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stranger	det
18	persistent	persistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stranger	amod
19	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buzzed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 slung	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 slung	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 slung	mark
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 slung	nsubj:pass
24	slung	sling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 buzzed	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slung	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 pebble	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pebble	det
29	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pebble	amod
30	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slung	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 slung	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	one irritable guard			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	buzz a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	we	a spear	at the persistent stranger	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at stranger=Stimulus
3	sling a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	participle · passive		one	at stranger; with a jagged pebble	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at he=Destination

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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