Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15

He stated that Fionn’s brother Cairell struck Cona’n mac Morna, that Goll’s two sons came to help Cona’n, that Oscar went to help Cairell, and with that Fionn’s people and the clann-Morna rose at each other, and what had started as a brawl ended as a battle with eleven hundred of Fionn’s people and sixty-one of Goll’s people dead.

Who acts: Goll, brother, two sons, Oscar, people · What happens: state, strike, come, help, go, rise · To what, where: Cona’n mac, Cona’n, Cairell, each, brawl, people

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goll, brother, two sons, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stated	nsubj
2	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 struck	mark
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brother	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Fionn	case
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	nsubj
7	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brother	appos
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stated	advcl
9	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mac	compound
10	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obj
11	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mac	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
14	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sons	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Goll	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sons	nummod
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 struck	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	xcomp
21	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 help	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 went	mark
24	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 help	mark
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	xcomp
28	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 help	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rose	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 rose	cc
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 people	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 Fionn	det
33	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 people	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Fionn	case
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rose	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Morna	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Morna	det
38	clann	clann	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Morna	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 clann	punct
40	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 people	conj
41	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stated	conj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 each	case
43	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	41 rose	obl
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 each	fixed
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 started	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 started	cc
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 started	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 started	aux
49	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stated	conj
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 brawl	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 brawl	det
52	brawl	brawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 started	obl
53	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 brawl	acl
54	as	as	ADP	_	56 battle	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 battle	det
56	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ended	obl
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 hundred	case
58	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 hundred	compound
59	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 battle	nmod
60	of	of	ADP	_	63 people	case
61	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 people	nmod:poss
62	’s	's	PART	_	61 Fionn	case
63	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 battle	nmod
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 one	cc
65	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	67 one	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 sixty	punct
67	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	63 people	conj
68	of	of	ADP	_	71 people	case
69	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 people	nmod:poss
70	’s	's	PART	_	69 Goll	case
71	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 one	nmod
72	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 people	amod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past	Goll					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	strike	past	Fionn's brother	Cona’n mac				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mac=Instrument
3	come	past	Goll's two sons					tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	Goll's two sons not said here		Cona’n			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cona'n=Beneficiary
5	go	past	Oscar					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	help	to-infinitive	Oscar not said here		Cairell			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairell=Beneficiary
7	rise	past	that Fionn's people and the clann Morna			each		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at each=Location
8	start	past · perfect · passive					as a brawl	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
9	end	participle		a brawl not said here			as a battle with eleven hundred of Fionn's people	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	battle			Fionn's people				nom battle «act transitive»: of=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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