Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 47

“By my weapons,” said he, “there were never less than an hundred-and-one men with Goll, and the least of them could have put you down easily enough.”

Who acts: brother, less · What happens: say, be, put down · To what, where: least · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brother, less), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	4 weapons	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 weapons	nmod:poss
4	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weapons	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 weapons	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 less	advmod
14	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 were	nsubj
15	than	than	ADP	_	22 men	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 men	det
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 men	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 men	cc
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 less	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 Goll	case
24	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 men	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 put	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 least	det
28	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 put	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 least	obl
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 put	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 put	aux
33	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 put	obj
35	down	down	ADP	_	33 put	compound:prt
36	easily	easily	ADV	_	33 put	advmod
37	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 put	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	brother			by my weapons	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	be in a quote	past	less		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put down in a quote	could · perfect	brother not said here	the least		easily, enough property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal

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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