Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 3

She blamed him in the court before his people, and complained that he had taken away her cow, and that she had not been paid the four cows he had gone bail for, and she demanded judgement from him and justice.

Who acts: Fiachna, person · What happens: blame, complain, take away, not pay, go, demand · To what, where: person, court, cow, Fiachna, bail, judgement · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fiachna, person), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blamed	nsubj
2	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blamed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blamed	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 people	nmod:poss
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blamed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 complained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 complained	cc
12	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blamed	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 taken	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taken	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 complained	ccomp
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 taken	advmod
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cow	nmod:poss
19	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gone	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 paid	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 paid	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 paid	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 paid	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 paid	aux:pass
27	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 gone	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cows	det
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 cows	nummod
30	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 paid	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gone	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	aux
33	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 blamed	conj
34	bail	bail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gone	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	33 gone	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 demanded	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 demanded	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 demanded	nsubj
39	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blamed	parataxis
40	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 demanded	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 demanded	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 justice	cc
44	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 demanded	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	Fiachna	person	the court	before person's people		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	complain speech: other	past						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take away	past · perfect	person	Fiachna's cow			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
4	not pay	past · perfect · passive		Fiachna				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient cow=Asset
5	go	past · perfect	person	bail				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	demand speech: request	past	Fiachna	judgement			from person	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme judgement=Precondition from he=Source

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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