Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 2

These learned people consulted together, and they stated that the young man must be killed, and that his blood should be mixed with the earth of Tara and sprinkled under the withered trees.

Who acts: These, people · What happens: learn, consult, state, kill, mix, sprinkle · To what, where: people, young man, blood, withered trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, people), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learned	obj
4	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 people	acl
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 consulted	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stated	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stated	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stated	nsubj
9	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 killed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 killed	nsubj:pass
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 killed	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 killed	aux:pass
16	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stated	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mixed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mixed	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 mixed	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 blood	nmod:poss
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mixed	nsubj:pass
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 mixed	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 mixed	aux:pass
24	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 learned	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 earth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 earth	det
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mixed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Tara	case
29	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 earth	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sprinkled	cc
31	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 mixed	conj
32	under	under	ADP	_	35 trees	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 trees	det
34	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 trees	amod
35	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sprinkled	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	These	people			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
2	consult	participle		people not said here		together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	state speech: other	past	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	kill	must · passive		the young man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	mix	should · passive		man's blood		with the earth of Tara	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with earth=Co-Patient
6	sprinkle	participle			the withered trees		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under tree=Destination
7	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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