Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 5

Conn was greatly perturbed, but, as in duty bound, he placed the boy under the various protections that were in his oath, and, with the courage of one who has no more to gain or lose, he placed Segda, furthermore, under the protection of all the men of Ireland.

Who acts: Conn, various protections, courage · What happens: perturb, place, be, have, gain, lose · To what, where: Conn, boy, various protections, oath, more, Segda

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 (Conn, various protections, courage), 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	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 perturbed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perturbed	aux:pass
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 perturbed	advmod
4	perturbed	perturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 placed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 placed	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 but	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 bound	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bound	case
10	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bound	compound
11	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bound	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 placed	nsubj
14	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perturbed	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obj
17	under	under	ADP	_	20 protections	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 protections	det
19	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 protections	amod
20	protections	protection	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 placed	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 oath	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 oath	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 oath	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 oath	nmod:poss
25	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 protections	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 placed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 placed	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 courage	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 courage	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 courage	det
31	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 placed	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 one	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 courage	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 has	nsubj
35	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 one	acl:relcl
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 more	det
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 has	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 gain	mark
39	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 more	advcl
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 lose	cc
41	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 gain	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 courage	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 placed	nsubj
44	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perturbed	conj
45	Segda	Segda	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 placed	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 furthermore	punct
47	furthermore	furthermore	ADV	_	44 placed	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 protection	punct
49	under	under	ADP	_	51 protection	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 protection	det
51	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 placed	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 men	case
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 men	det:predet
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 men	det
55	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 protection	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 Ireland	case
57	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 men	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perturbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perturb	past · passive		Conn		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	place	past	Conn	the boy	the various protections	as duty bound	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme under protection=Destination
3	is	past	the various protections		Conn's oath		tree rules
4	have	present		no more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
5	gain	to-infinitive					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	lose	infinitive					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	place	past	the courage of one	Segda	the protection of all men of Ireland	furthermore property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent segda=Theme under protection=Destination
8	protect			all men of Ireland			nom protection «act transitive»: of=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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