Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 53

Two of Oscar’s sons could not bear to see their uncle being worsted, and they leaped at Cona’n, and two of Goll’s sons rushed at them.

Who acts: Two sons, sons, two · What happens: not bear, see, worst, leap, rush · To what, where: uncle, Cona’n · 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 (Two sons, sons, two), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	nummod
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 sons	case
3	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sons	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Oscar	case
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bear	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bear	advmod
8	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bear	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 uncle	nmod:poss
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 worsted	nsubj
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 worsted	aux:pass
14	worsted	worst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 see	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leaped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 leaped	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leaped	nsubj
18	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Cona’n	case
20	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 leaped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rushed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rushed	cc
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 rushed	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 sons	case
25	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sons	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Goll	case
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 two	nmod
28	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bear	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 rushed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bear	could	Oscar's Two sons				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	Oscar's Two sons not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	worst	gerund · passive		sons's uncle			tree rules
4	leap	past	sons = son		Cona’n		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cona'n=Trajectory
5	rush	participle	two of Goll's sons			at sons = son	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at they=Trajectory

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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