Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 14

And with that he ran, as he had only once before run, and the men who were nigh to him went racing as they would not have run for their lives.

Who acts: Nor, men · What happens: run, have, be, go, race, not run · To what, where: Nor

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 (Nor, men), 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	_	9 had	cc
2	with	with	SCONJ	_	5 ran	mark
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 ran	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 once	advmod
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 had	advmod
12	before	before	ADV	_	13 run	advmod
13	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 once	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 went	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 nigh	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 nigh	cop
20	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 nigh	obl
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
24	racing	race	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 went	xcomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 run	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 run	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 run	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 run	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 run	aux
30	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 racing	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 lives	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lives	nmod:poss
33	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 run	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	Nor			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Nor		once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	run	present	Nor not said here		before property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the men	Nor	nigh property	tree rules
5	go	past	the men			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	race	gerund	the men not said here			tree rules
7	not run	would · perfect	men = man		for hounds's lives	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary

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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