Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 25

Then these two sets of four fought togethor with every warlike courtesy but with every warlike severity, and at the end of that combat there was but one man standing, and the other seven lay tossed in death.

Who acts: two sets, one man · What happens: fight, be, stand, toss · To what, where: togethor, end, other seven, death

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 (two sets, one man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fought	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 sets	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sets	nummod
4	sets	set	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fought	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 four	case
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sets	nmod
7	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	togethor	togethor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 courtesy	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 courtesy	det
11	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 courtesy	amod
12	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 severity	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 severity	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 severity	det
16	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 severity	amod
17	severity	severity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 courtesy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 combat	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 combat	det
25	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 end	nmod
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	parataxis
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 standing	cc
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 man	nummod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 standing	nsubj
31	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 was	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tossed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tossed	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 seven	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 seven	amod
36	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 tossed	nsubj:pass
37	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 tossed	aux:pass
38	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fought	parataxis
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 death	case
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tossed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	this two sets of four	togethor		then	with every warlike courtesy but every warlike severity	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent togethor=Co-Agent
2	be	past			there	at the end of that combat		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
3	stand	gerund	one man					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	toss	present · passive		the other seven	death			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in death=Destination

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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