Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 61
In every part of it men were giving and taking blows.
Who acts: men · What happens: give, take · To what, where: part, blows
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 part | nmod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 giving | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 giving | aux |
| 8 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taking | cc |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 giving | conj |
| 11 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taking | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 giving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · progressive | men | every part of part | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | men not said here | blows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
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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