Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 6

But the men of Ireland refused to accept that bond, saying that although the Ard-Ri’ was acting justly towards the boy he was not acting justly towards Ireland.

Who acts: men, man · What happens: refuse, not accept, say, act, not act · To what, where: bond · 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 (men, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 refused	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 refused	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ireland	case
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accept	mark
8	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refused	xcomp
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bond	det
10	bond	bond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accept	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 accept	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 acting	mark
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	18 Ri	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Ri	det
16	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ri	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Ard	punct
18	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 acting	obl
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 Ri	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 acting	aux
21	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saying	ccomp
22	justly	justly	ADV	_	21 acting	advmod
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	25 boy	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 acting	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 acting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 acting	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 acting	advmod
29	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 acting	conj
30	justly	justly	ADV	_	29 acting	advmod
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 Ireland	case
32	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 acting	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the men of Ireland			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not accept	to-infinitive	the men of Ireland not said here	that bond		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bond=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the men of Ireland not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	act	past · progressive			although the Ard Ri; towards the boy; justly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not act	past · progressive	man		towards Ireland; justly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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