Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 20

The men of Ulster disliked him, and they petitioned Mananna’n to bring Mongan back, but Mananna’n would not do this until the boy was sixteen years of age and well reared in the wisdom of the Land of Promise.

Who acts: men, Mananna’n, boy · What happens: dislike, petition, bring back, not do, be, rear · To what, where: Ulster, Mananna’n, Mongan, this, wisdom

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Mananna’n, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disliked	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Ulster	case
4	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 men	nmod
5	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 disliked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 petitioned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 petitioned	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 petitioned	nsubj
10	petitioned	petition	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disliked	conj
11	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 petitioned	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bring	mark
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 petitioned	xcomp
14	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
18	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 do	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 do	advmod
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 disliked	parataxis
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 do	obj
23	until	until	ADP	_	28 years	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 years	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 years	cop
27	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 age	case
30	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 years	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 reared	cc
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 reared	advmod
33	reared	rear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 do	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 wisdom	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wisdom	det
36	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reared	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Land	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Land	det
39	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wisdom	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Promise	case
41	Promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Land	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 disliked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike	past	the men of Ulster	Ulster					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	petition	past	men = man	Mananna’n					tree rules
3	bring back	to-infinitive	men = man not said here		Mongan				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mongan=Destination
4	not do	would	Mananna’n	this					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
5	is	past	the boy				until sixteen years; of age		tree rules
6	rear	participle	Mananna’n not said here			the wisdom of the Land of Promise		well property	vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: 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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