Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 29
“For tribute and sovereignty,” growled that other, and he struck the haft of his spear violently on the ground.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: growl, strike · To what, where: haft
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 8 growled | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 tribute | case |
| 3 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 growled | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sovereignty | cc |
| 5 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tribute | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tribute | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tribute | punct |
| 8 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | ADP | _ | 10 other | case |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 growled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 struck | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 struck | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 struck | nsubj |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 growled | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 haft | det |
| 16 | haft | haft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spear | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 spear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 haft | nmod |
| 20 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 14 struck | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl | past | for tribute and sovereignty; that other | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for tribute=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | Fionn | the haft of Fionn's spear | on the ground; violently property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent haft=Instrument on ground=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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