Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 16

And I was still a hawk when the sons of Mil drove the Tuatha De’ Danann under the ground, and held Ireland against arms or wizardry; and this was the coming of men and the beginning of genealogies.

Who acts: I, sons, this · What happens: be, drive, hold, come, begin · To what, where: hawk, Tuatha De, ground, Ireland, arms, genealogies

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sons, this), 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	_	6 hawk	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hawk	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hawk	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 hawk	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hawk	det
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 drove	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sons	det
9	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drove	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Mil	case
11	Mil	Mil	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sons	nmod
12	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hawk	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 De	det
14	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 De	compound
15	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 drove	obj
16	’	's	PART	_	15 De	case
17	Danann	Danann	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 De	flat
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drove	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 held	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 held	cc
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hawk	parataxis
24	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 held	obj
25	against	against	ADP	_	26 arms	case
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 held	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 wizardry	cc
28	wizardry	wizardry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arms	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 coming	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 coming	cc
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 coming	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 coming	aux
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 coming	det
34	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 held	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 men	case
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 coming	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 beginning	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 beginning	det
39	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 men	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 genealogies	case
41	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 beginning	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hawk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a hawk		still		tree rules
2	drive	past	the sons of Mil	the Tuatha De	the ground			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent de=Theme under ground=Destination
3	hold	past		Ireland	arms or wizardry			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme against arm=Location
4	come	past · progressive	this				of men and the beginning of genealogies	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of man=Initial_Location
5	begin			genealogies				nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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