Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7

Not even a call was necessary, for Goll felt in his heart when Fionn was threatened, and he would leave Fionn’s own brother only half-killed to fly where his arm was wanted.

Who acts: call, Goll, Fionn · What happens: be, feel, threaten, leave, kill, fly · To what, where: Fionn, own brother, arm

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 (call, Goll, 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 call	advmod
2	even	even	ADV	_	4 call	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 call	det
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 necessary	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 necessary	cop
6	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 felt	mark
9	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 necessary	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 heart	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heart	nmod:poss
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 threatened	advmod
15	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 threatened	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 threatened	aux:pass
17	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 felt	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leave	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 leave	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 leave	aux
22	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 necessary	parataxis
23	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 brother	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Fionn	case
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brother	amod
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leave	obj
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 killed	advmod
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 killed	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 half	punct
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 leave	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fly	mark
32	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 killed	advcl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 wanted	advmod
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 arm	nmod:poss
35	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wanted	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 wanted	aux:pass
37	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 fly	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	a call		necessary property	tree rules
2	feel	past	Goll		in Goll's heart	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in heart=Attribute
3	threaten	past · passive		Fionn		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	leave	would	Fionn	Fionn's own brother		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
5	kill	participle	Fionn not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	fly	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	want	past · passive		Fionn's arm		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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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