Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 54

He beat them before nightfall, and by that victory he became King of Lochlann and King of the Saxons and the Britons.

Who acts: Fiachna · What happens: beat, become · To what, where: rights

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiachna), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 nightfall	case
5	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 victory	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 victory	det
10	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 became	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Lochlann	case
15	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 King	cc
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Saxons	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Saxons	det
20	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 King	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Britons	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Britons	det
23	Britons	Briton	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 Saxons	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Fiachna	rights = right			before nightfall		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	become	past	Fiachna					by that victory	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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