Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 24

But he was not yet finished with the Shi.

What happens: not finish · To what, where: Fianna

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 finished	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 finished	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 finished	advmod
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Shi	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Shi	det
9	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not finish	past · passive		Fianna			yet	with the Shi	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with shi=Subeventuality

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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