Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 37

A hard game that was, and at times each of the combatants sat for an hour staring on the board before the next move was made, and at times they looked from the board and for hours stared on the sky seeking as though in heaven for advice.

Who acts: hard game, hour, moves, sky · What happens: sit, stare, make, look, seek · To what, where: next move, hours

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hard game, hour, moves, sky), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 game	amod
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 game	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 times	case
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	obl
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sat	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 combatants	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 combatants	det
13	combatants	combatant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 each	nmod
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 hour	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hour	det
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 hour	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 board	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 board	det
21	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 staring	obl
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 move	det
24	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 move	amod
25	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux:pass
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 staring	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 looked	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 times	case
31	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 looked	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 board	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 board	det
36	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hours	cc
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 hours	case
39	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 board	conj
40	stared	stare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 hours	acl
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 sky	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sky	det
43	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stared	obl
44	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 sky	acl
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 though	advmod
46	though	though	ADV	_	44 seeking	advmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 heaven	case
48	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 though	obl
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 advice	case
50	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 heaven	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a hard game		hour; time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund	a hour not said here			on the board	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on board=Theme
3	make	past · passive		the next move			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	look	past	moves = move		time	from the board and hours	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from board=Theme
5	stare	participle		hours not said here		on the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on sky=Theme
6	seek	gerund	the sky not said here			though property	vn hunt-35.1 «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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