Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 25

At that news the men of the household picked up clubs and cudgels and every kind of thing that was near, and made a violent and woeful attack on Tibraide’s men The King of Leinster came in then, and when he was told Tibraide’ was Mongan he attacked them as well, and it was with difficulty that Tibraide’ got away to Cell Camain with nine of his men and they all wounded.

Who acts: men, thing, violent attack, Tibraide Mongan, attack, Tibraide · What happens: pick up, club, be, make, come in, tell · To what, where: Tibraide, Tibraide Mongan, men, Camain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, thing, violent attack, Tibraide Mongan), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 news	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 news	det
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clubs	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 household	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 household	det
8	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod
9	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 clubs	amod
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 picked	compound:prt
11	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 news	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cudgels	cc
13	cudgels	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clubs	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kind	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 kind	det
16	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clubs	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 thing	case
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kind	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 near	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 near	cop
21	near	near	ADV	_	18 thing	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 clubs	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 attack	det
26	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 attack	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 woeful	cc
28	woeful	woeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 violent	conj
29	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 men	case
31	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 men	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Tibraide	case
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 attack	nmod
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 King	det
35	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 men	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Leinster	case
37	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 King	nmod
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	ccomp
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 came	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 told	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 told	cc
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 told	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 told	aux:pass
46	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 made	conj
47	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Mongan	compound
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 Tibraide	punct
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 Mongan	cop
50	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 attacked	nsubj
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 attacked	nsubj
52	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 told	ccomp
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 attacked	obj
54	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	52 attacked	advmod
55	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	54 as	fixed
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 difficulty	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 difficulty	cc
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 difficulty	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 difficulty	cop
60	with	with	ADP	_	61 difficulty	case
61	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	parataxis
62	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 got	mark
63	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 got	nsubj
64	’	'	PUNCT	_	63 Tibraide	punct
65	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 difficulty	advcl
66	away	away	ADV	_	65 got	advmod
67	to	to	PART	_	68 Cell	mark
68	Cell	cell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 got	xcomp
69	Camain	Camain	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 Cell	obj
70	with	with	ADP	_	71 nine	case
71	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	68 Cell	obl
72	of	of	ADP	_	74 men	case
73	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 men	nmod:poss
74	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 nine	nmod
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 wounded	cc
76	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 wounded	nsubj
77	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	78 wounded	det
78	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 got	conj
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 news	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	participle					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	club		the men of the household				tree rules
3	is	past	thing			near property	tree rules
4	make	past	the men of the household not said here				tree rules
5	come in	past	a violent attack on Tibraide's men		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Tibraide			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	is a	past		Tibraide Mongan			tree rules
8	attack	past	Tibraide Mongan	men = man			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
9	is	past	attack			with difficulty	tree rules
10	get away	past	Tibraide			away property	tree rules
11	cell	to-infinitive	Tibraide not said here	Camain		with nine of Tibraide's men	tree rules

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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