Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 25

The clerk began to bless himself, and then Tibraide’ began to bless himself, and after that they didn’t know what to do.

Who acts: clerk, Tibraide, men · What happens: begin, bless, not know, do · To what, where: clerk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, Tibraide, men), 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 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bless	mark
5	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 bless	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 Tibraide	advmod
10	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 Tibraide	punct
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bless	mark
14	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 bless	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 know	cc
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 know	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 know	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	parataxis
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 do	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 know	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the clerk		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bless	to-infinitive	the clerk not said here	clerk	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	begin	past	Tibraide		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bless	to-infinitive	Tibraide not said here	clerk	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	not know	past · do-support	men = man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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