Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 42

“I hold that on account of his great losses Fionn is to be exempt from payment of damages, and that his losses are to be considered as damages.”

Who acts: Cormac, Fionn · What happens: hold, be, consider, account, pay · To what, where: that, account, payment, losses, great losses, damages

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 (Cormac, Fionn), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hold	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 account	case
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 losses	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 losses	nmod:poss
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 losses	amod
10	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 account	nmod
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 exempt	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 exempt	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	15 exempt	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 exempt	cop
15	exempt	exempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 losses	acl:relcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 payment	case
17	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 exempt	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 damages	case
19	damages	damage	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 payment	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 considered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 considered	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 considered	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 losses	nmod:poss
24	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 considered	nsubj:pass
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 considered	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 considered	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 considered	aux:pass
28	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hold	conj
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 damages	case
30	damages	damage	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 considered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	present	Cormac	that	account of Cormac's great losses		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme on account=Location
2	is in a quote	present	Fionn		payment of damages	exempt property	tree rules
3	consider in a quote	present · passive		Cormac's losses		as damages	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
4	account in a quote			Cormac's great losses			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	pay in a quote			damages			nom payment «possession 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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