Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 64
Yonder a big-shouldered person lifted another man in his arms and threw him at a small group that charged him.
Who acts: shouldered person, small group · What happens: shoulder, lift, throw, charge · To what, where: man, arms, two, small group
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 (shouldered person, small group), 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 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 7 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shouldered | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 big | punct |
| 5 | shouldered | shoulder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | nsubj |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 man | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 group | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 group | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 group | amod |
| 19 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 charged | nsubj |
| 21 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 group | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 charged | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoulder | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lift | past | a shouldered person | another man | two's arms | yonder property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in arm=Destination | ||
| 3 | throw | past | a shouldered person not said here | two | a small group | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at group=Destination | |||
| 4 | charge | past | a small group | two | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=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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