Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 31

I penetrated to the hold of the Danish king, and I took out of his dungeon the men who had lain there for a year and were awaiting their deaths.

Who acts: I, men · What happens: penetrate, take out, lie, await, hold, die · To what, where: dungeon, deaths, Danish king

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 penetrated	nsubj
2	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hold	det
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 penetrated	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 penetrated	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 dungeon	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 dungeon	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dungeon	nmod:poss
17	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 men	det
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dungeon	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 lain	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lain	aux
22	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 men	acl:relcl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lain	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 year	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lain	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 awaiting	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 awaiting	aux
29	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 took	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 deaths	nmod:poss
31	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 awaiting	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 penetrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	penetrate	past	I				to the hold of the Danish king	vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take out	past	I	King's dungeon				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dungeon=Theme
3	lie	past · perfect	the men		there	year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	await	past · progressive	I not said here	men's deaths				tree rules
5	hold			the Danish king				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
6	die		men = man					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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