Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 3

And he bawled, “Meal, meal!” until he bawled everybody into silence.

Who acts: Meal · What happens: bawl · To what, where: Meal, everybody, silence

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meal), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 bawled	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bawled	nsubj
3	bawled	bawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Meal	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Meal	punct
6	Meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bawled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 meal	punct
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Meal	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 meal	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Meal	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 bawled	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bawled	nsubj
13	bawled	bawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bawled	advcl
14	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 bawled	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 silence	case
16	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bawled	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bawl speech: other	past	Meal	Meal					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Topic
2	bawl speech: other	past	Meal	everybody		silence			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Topic into silence=Recipient

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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