Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 12
In the first battle three hundred of the men of Lochlann were killed, but in the next battle Eolgarg Mor did not fight fair, for he let some venomous sheep out of a tent, and these attacked the men of Ulster and killed nine hundred of them.
Who acts: Eolgarg, these · What happens: kill, not fight, let, attack · To what, where: men, first battle, next battle, venomous sheep, tent, nine hundred
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eolgarg, these), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 battle | amod |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 battle | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lochlann | case |
| 11 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux:pass |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fight | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 fight | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 battle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 battle | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 battle | amod |
| 19 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fight | obl |
| 20 | Eolgarg | Eolgarg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 battle | appos |
| 21 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Eolgarg | flat |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fight | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 fight | advmod |
| 24 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | parataxis |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fight | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 let | case |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 let | nsubj |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fight | conj |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 sheep | det |
| 31 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sheep | amod |
| 32 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 let | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 tent | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tent | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 tent | det |
| 36 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sheep | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 attacked | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 attacked | cc |
| 39 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 40 attacked | nsubj |
| 40 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 men | det |
| 42 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 attacked | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Ulster | case |
| 44 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 men | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 killed | cc |
| 46 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 attacked | conj |
| 47 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 hundred | compound |
| 48 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 killed | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 hundred | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the men of Lochlann | the first battle three hundred | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not fight | past · do-support | the next battle | fair property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Eolgarg | some venomous sheep | a tent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | |||
| 4 | attack | past | these | the men of Ulster | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 5 | kill | past | these not said here | nine hundred of men | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
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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