Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 6

They sent for more distant doctors, and then for others more distant still, and at last they found a man who claimed that he could make a cure if the king were supplied with the medicine which he would order.

Who acts: doctors, man, medicine · What happens: send, find, claim, make, supply, order · To what, where: man, last, cure, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors, man, medicine), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 doctors	case
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 doctors	amod
5	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 doctors	amod
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 distant	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 distant	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 distant	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 others	case
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 then	obl
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 distant	advmod
13	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sent	parataxis
14	still	still	ADV	_	13 distant	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 found	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 claimed	nsubj
24	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 man	acl:relcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 make	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 claimed	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cure	det
30	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 supplied	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 supplied	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 supplied	aux:pass
35	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 make	advcl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 medicine	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 medicine	det
38	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 supplied	obl
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 order	nsubj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 order	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 order	aux
42	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 medicine	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	doctors = doctor			for more distant doctors	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	doctors = doctor	a man	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Theme at last=Asset
3	claim speech: other	past	a man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	could	man	a cure			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Product
5	supply a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the king		with the medicine	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with medicine=Theme
6	order	would	the medicine				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: 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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