Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2

Discipline sometimes irked him, and he would then take any opportunity that presented for an adventure; for he was not only a soldier, he was a poet also, that is, a man of science, and whatever was strange or unusual had an irresistible at-traction for him.

Who acts: Discipline, Fionn, opportunity, that, whatever · What happens: irk, take, present, not be, be, have · To what, where: Fionn, opportunity, poet, man, irresistible

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 (Discipline, Fionn, opportunity, that), 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	Discipline	discipline	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 irked	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 irked	advmod
3	irked	irk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 irked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 take	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 take	advmod
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 irked	conj
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 opportunity	det
12	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 presented	nsubj
14	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 opportunity	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 adventure	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 adventure	det
17	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 presented	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 soldier	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	25 soldier	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 soldier	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 soldier	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 soldier	advmod
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 soldier	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 soldier	det
25	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 irked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 poet	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 poet	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 poet	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 poet	det
30	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 soldier	appos
31	also	also	ADV	_	30 poet	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 man	punct
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 man	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 man	cop
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 is	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 soldier	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 science	case
39	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 man	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 strange	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 strange	cc
42	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 strange	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 strange	cop
44	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 had	advcl
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 unusual	cc
46	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 strange	conj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 irked	conj
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 irresistible	det
49	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 had	obj
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 traction	case
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 at	punct
52	traction	traction	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 irresistible	obl
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 traction	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 irked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	irk	past	Discipline	Fionn		sometimes property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	take	would	Fionn	any opportunity	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
3	present	past	any opportunity			for a adventure	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for adventure=Recipient
4	not is	past	Fionn			for a soldier	tree rules
5	is a	past	Fionn	a poet			tree rules
6	is a	present	that	a man		of science	tree rules
7	is	past	whatever			strange property	tree rules
8	be		whatever not said here				tree rules
9	have	past	Discipline not said here	a irresistible			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent irresistible=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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