Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 35

He stood as though he were dumb and blind, and now and again he beat terribly on his breast with his closed fist, as though he would kill that within him which should be dead and could not die.

Who acts: captain · What happens: stand, be, beat, close, kill, not die · To what, where: breast, that

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 (captain), 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	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 dumb	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dumb	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dumb	cop
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blind	cc
9	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dumb	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beat	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 beat	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 again	cc
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 now	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 beat	nsubj
16	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
17	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	16 beat	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 breast	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 breast	nmod:poss
20	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beat	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 fist	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fist	nmod:poss
23	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fist	amod
24	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breast	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kill	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 kill	mark
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 as	fixed
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kill	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 kill	aux
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 beat	conj
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 kill	obj
32	within	within	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kill	obl
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 dead	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 dead	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 dead	cop
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kill	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 die	cc
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 die	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 die	advmod
41	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 dead	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	captain					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	captain				dumb property	tree rules
3	be		captain not said here					tree rules
4	beat	past	captain		captain's breast with captain's closed fist	now	terribly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breast=Location
5	close	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	kill	would	captain	that			within servant	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
7	is	should					dead property	tree rules
8	not die	could						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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