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Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 1

It was a long, uneasy journey, for although mac an Da’v was of stout heart and goodwill, yet no man can carry another on his back from Ulster to Leinster and go quick.

Who acts: It, Da’v, man · What happens: be, carry, go · To what, where: long uneasy journey, mac, another, Leinster, back

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Da’v, man), 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

nsubjcopdetamodpunctamodpunctcasecasenmoddetnsubjcopcaseamodacl:relclccconjpunctccdetnsubjauxparataxisobjcasenmod:possoblcasenmodcaseoblccconjadvmodpunctrootItPRONwasAUXaDETlongADJ,PUNCTuneasyADJjourneyNOUN,PUNCTforADPalthoughSCONJmacNOUNanDETDa’vPROPNwasAUXofADPstoutADJheartNOUNandCCONJgoodwillNOUN,PUNCTyetCCONJnoDETmanNOUNcanAUXcarryVERBanotherDETonADPhisPRONbackNOUNfromADPUlsterPROPNtoADPLeinsterPROPNandCCONJgoVERBquickADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 journeynsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 journeycop
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 journeydet
4longlongADJDegree=Pos7 journeyamod
5,,PUNCT_4 longpunct
6uneasyuneasyADJDegree=Pos7 journeyamod
7journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
8,,PUNCT_11 macpunct
9forforADP_11 maccase
10althoughalthoughSCONJ_11 maccase
11macmacNOUNNumber=Sing7 journeynmod
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 Da’vdet
13Da’vDa'vPROPNNumber=Sing17 heartnsubj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 heartcop
15ofofADP_17 heartcase
16stoutstoutADJDegree=Pos17 heartamod
17heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing11 macacl:relcl
18andandCCONJ_19 goodwillcc
19goodwillgoodwillNOUNNumber=Sing17 heartconj
20,,PUNCT_25 carrypunct
21yetyetCCONJ_25 carrycc
22nonoDETPronType=Neg23 mandet
23manmanNOUNNumber=Sing25 carrynsubj
24cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin25 carryaux
25carrycarryVERBVerbForm=Inf7 journeyparataxis
26anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind25 carryobj
27ononADP_29 backcase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 backnmod:poss
29backbackNOUNNumber=Sing25 carryobl
30fromfromADP_31 Ulstercase
31UlsterUlsterPROPNNumber=Sing29 backnmod
32totoADP_33 Leinstercase
33LeinsterLeinsterPROPNNumber=Sing25 carryobl
34andandCCONJ_35 gocc
35gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf25 carryconj
36quickquickADV_35 goadvmod
37..PUNCT_7 journeypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastIta long uneasy journeyfor mactree rules
2ispasta Da’vmac not said hereof stout heart and goodwilltree rules
3carrycanno mananotherLeinsterman's back from Ulstervn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme to leinster=Destination
4goinfinitiveno man not said herequick propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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