Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 39
The nobles suggested to him that they should march against Leinster and kill that king and bring back Duv Laca, but Mongan would not consent to this plan.
Who acts: nobles, Mongan · What happens: suggest, march, bring back, not consent · To what, where: King, Leinster, Duv · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobles, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobles | det |
| 2 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suggested | nsubj |
| 3 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suggested | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 march | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 march | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 march | aux |
| 9 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suggested | ccomp |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 Leinster | case |
| 11 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 march | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kill | cc |
| 13 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Leinster | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kill | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 march | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 19 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Duv | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 consent | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 consent | cc |
| 23 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 consent | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 consent | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 consent | advmod |
| 26 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suggested | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 plan | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 plan | det |
| 29 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 consent | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the nobles | King | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | march | should | nobles = noble | Leinster and kill | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against leinster=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bring back | infinitive | nobles = noble not said here | Duv | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument duv=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not consent | would | Mongan | to this plan | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to plan=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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