Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 50
For, notwithstanding the endless bicker of these two heroes, they loved each other well.
Who acts: heroes, two heroes · What happens: notwithstand, love, bicker · To what, where: endless bicker, each
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 (heroes, two heroes), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 notwithstanding | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 notwithstanding | punct |
| 3 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 loved | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bicker | det |
| 5 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bicker | amod |
| 6 | bicker | bicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 notwithstanding | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heroes | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 heroes | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 heroes | nummod |
| 10 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bicker | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 notwithstanding | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 13 loved | obj |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 loved | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notwithstand | gerund | heroes = hero not said here | the endless bicker of this two heroes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | heroes = hero | each | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bicker | this two heroes | nom bicker «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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