Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 90

Of Fionn’s people eleven hundred of men and women were dead, while of Goll’s people eleven men and fifty women were dead.

Who acts: hundred men, eleven men · What happens: be

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 (hundred men, eleven 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Fionn	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dead	obl
5	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 men	nummod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dead	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 women	cc
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dead	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 dead	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 people	case
16	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 people	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Goll	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dead	obl
19	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 men	nummod
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dead	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 women	cc
22	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 women	nummod
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 men	conj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dead	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hundred men and women					of Fionn's people; dead property	tree rules
2	is	past	eleven men and fifty women					of Goll's people; dead property	tree rules

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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