Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 24
Three young men met him, each in battle harness, and these four advanced to meet four other men who awaited them at a little distance on the lawn.
Who acts: Three young men, four other men · What happens: meet, await · To what, where: eye, four other men, eyelids
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three young men, four other 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 each | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 met | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 harness | case |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 harness | compound |
| 10 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 each | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 advanced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 advanced | cc |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 advanced | nsubj |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 advanced | nummod |
| 15 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 met | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 advanced | xcomp |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 men | nummod |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 meet | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 awaited | nsubj |
| 22 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 men | acl:relcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 awaited | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 distance | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 distance | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 distance | amod |
| 27 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 awaited | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 lawn | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lawn | det |
| 30 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 distance | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Three young men | eye | each obl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Three young men not said here | four other men | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | await | past | four other men | eyelids = eyelid | at a little distance on the lawn | tree rules |
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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