Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 58
Oisi’n, Oscar’s father, could not abide that; he dashed in and quelled Art Og.
Who acts: Oisi’n, Oscar · What happens: not abide, dash, quell · To what, where: that, Art Og
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 (Oisi’n, Oscar), 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 | Oisi’n | Oisi'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 abide | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 3 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Oscar | case |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oisi’n | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oisi’n | punct |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 abide | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 abide | advmod |
| 9 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 abide | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 dashed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dashed | nsubj |
| 13 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 abide | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 dashed | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 quelled | cc |
| 16 | quelled | quell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dashed | conj |
| 17 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Og | compound |
| 18 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 quelled | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not abide | could | Oisi’n | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | Oscar | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | quell | past | Oscar not said here | Art Og | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent og=Patient |
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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