Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 31
But the ceremony had scarcely been completed when the tread of a single man caused the palace to quake and seemed to jar the world.
Who acts: tread, single man · What happens: complete, cause, quake, seem, tread · To what, where: ceremony, palace, jar
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tread, single 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 | _ | 7 completed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ceremony | det |
| 3 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 completed | aux |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 7 completed | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 completed | aux:pass |
| 7 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 caused | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tread | det |
| 10 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tread | nmod |
| 15 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 completed | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 quake | mark |
| 19 | quake | quake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 palace | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seemed | cc |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 caused | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 jar | mark |
| 23 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jar | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · perfect · passive | the ceremony | scarcely property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the tread of a single man | the palace | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition palace=Patient | ||||
| 3 | quake | to-infinitive | the tread of a single man not said here | the palace not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | the tread of a single man not said here | jar the world | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jar=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | tread | a single man | nom tread «act intransitive»: of=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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