Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 35

“Hush,” said Mongan, for a man who heard his shout stopped to tie a sandie, or to listen.

Who acts: Mongan, man · What happens: say, hear, stop, tie, listen, shout · To what, where: shout, sandie · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mongan, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stopped	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 stopped	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stopped	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shout	nmod:poss
14	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
15	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tie	mark
17	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stopped	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sandie	det
19	sandie	sandie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tie	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 listen	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 listen	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 listen	mark
23	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tie	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mongan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	a man	man's shout	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shout=Stimulus
3	stop	past	a man		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	tie	to-infinitive	a man not said here	a sandie	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandie=Patient
5	listen	to-infinitive	a man not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	shout		man		nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=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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