Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 2

He at once sent a messenger calling for fulfilment of the pledge that had been given to the Fianna, and demanding the instant return of Tuiren.

Who acts: news, messenger, Tuiren · What happens: send, call, give, demand, fulfil, return · To what, where: messenger, pledge, Fianna, instant return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, messenger, Tuiren), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	4 sent	mark
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 sent	advmod
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 messenger	det
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 messenger	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 fulfilment	case
9	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calling	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pledge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pledge	det
12	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fulfilment	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 given	obj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 given	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 given	aux:pass
16	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pledge	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Fianna	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fianna	det
19	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 given	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 demanding	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 demanding	cc
22	demanding	demand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sent	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 return	det
24	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 return	amod
25	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 demanding	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Tuiren	case
27	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 return	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	news	a messenger		once property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2	call	gerund	a messenger not said here			for fulfilment of the pledge	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for fulfilment=Recipient
3	give	past · perfect · passive		the pledge	the Fianna		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: that=Theme to fianna=Recipient
4	demand speech: request	gerund	news not said here	the instant return of Tuiren			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition
5	fulfil			the pledge			nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	return		Tuiren				nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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