Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 38

“If you can find a man among your fourteen battalions who can outrun or outwrestle or outfight me, I will take myself off to my own country, and will trouble you no more.”

Who acts: you, fourteen battalions, Cael · What happens: find, outrun, outwrestle, outfight, take off, no · To what, where: man, Cael, more

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 (you, fourteen battalions, Cael), 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	_	5 find	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 find	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	among	among	ADP	_	11 battalions	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 battalions	nmod:poss
10	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 battalions	nummod
11	battalions	battalion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 outrun	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 outrun	aux
14	outrun	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 battalions	acl:relcl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 outwrestle	cc
16	outwrestle	outwrestle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 outrun	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 outfight	cc
18	outfight	outfight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 outrun	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 outfight	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 take	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	23 take	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 country	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 country	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 country	amod
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trouble	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 trouble	cc
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 trouble	aux
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 no	nsubj
35	no	no	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 trouble	acl:relcl
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 no	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	a man	among your fourteen battalions	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	outrun in a quote	can	your fourteen battalions			tree rules
3	outwrestle in a quote	infinitive	your fourteen battalions not said here			tree rules
4	outfight in a quote	infinitive	your fourteen battalions not said here	Cael		tree rules
5	take off in a quote	future	Cael	Cael	to my own country	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
6	no in a quote	present	you	more		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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