Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 34
And,” he roared in a voice of extraordinary savagery, “the man that took away my wife into the bargain, and she not in the bargain.”
Who acts: man · What happens: roar, take away · To what, where: man, voice, wife, bargain
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 roared | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roared | nsubj |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 savagery | case |
| 10 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 savagery | amod |
| 11 | savagery | savagery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 voice | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 bargain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bargain | det |
| 23 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bargain | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bargain | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bargain | nsubj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 bargain | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bargain | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bargain | det |
| 30 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 bargain | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 bargain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar in a quote | past | man | the man | a voice of extraordinary savagery | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take away | past | the man | my wife | the bargain | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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