Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11

“We had never known Fionn to return from a combat before it had been fought, and we knew you could not have reached Ben Edar or encountered the Lochlannachs.

Who acts: We, you · What happens: not know, return, fight, know, not reach, encounter · To what, where: Fionn, combat, Ben, Lochlannachs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you), 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 known	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 known	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 known	advmod
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 known	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 return	mark
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 known	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 combat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 combat	det
11	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 fought	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fought	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fought	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 fought	aux:pass
16	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 return	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knew	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	parataxis
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 reached	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 reached	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 reached	advmod
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 reached	aux
25	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 knew	ccomp
26	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 reached	obj
27	Edar	Edar	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Ben	flat
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 encountered	cc
29	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reached	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Lochlannachs	det
31	Lochlannachs	Lochlannachs	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 encountered	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not know in a quote	past · perfect	We	Fionn		tree rules
2	return in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here		a combat	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from combat=Initial_Location
3	fight in a quote	past · perfect · passive		combat		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
4	know in a quote	past	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not reach in a quote	could · perfect	you	Ben		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ben=Theme
6	encounter in a quote	past	you not said here	the Lochlannachs		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lochlannachs=Stimulus

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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