Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 11

Undoubtedly he had given every giant in Ireland a considerable beating, barring Fin M'Coul himself; and he swore that he would never rest, night or day, winter or summer, till he would serve Fin with the same sauce, if he could catch him.

Who acts: considerable beating, Cucullin · What happens: give, bar, swear, not rest, serve, catch · To what, where: Cucullin, Ireland, Fin M'Coul, Fin, giant

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (considerable beating, Cucullin), 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	Undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	4 given	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ireland	case
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beating	det
10	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beating	amod
11	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 barring	punct
13	barring	bar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 beating	acl
14	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 M'Coul	compound
15	M'Coul	M'Coul	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 barring	obj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 M'Coul	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 swore	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swore	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swore	nsubj
20	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 rest	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rest	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 rest	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 rest	advmod
25	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swore	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rest	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 day	cc
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 night	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 winter	punct
31	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 night	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 summer	cc
33	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 winter	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 serve	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 serve	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 serve	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 serve	aux
38	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rest	parataxis
39	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 serve	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 sauce	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sauce	det
42	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sauce	amod
43	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 serve	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 catch	punct
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 catch	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 catch	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 catch	aux
48	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 serve	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 catch	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		Cucullin		Ireland		undoubtedly property	tree rules
2	bar	gerund	a considerable beating not said here	Fin M'Coul Cucullin					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer m'coul=Theme
3	swear	past	Cucullin						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not rest	would	Cucullin				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	serve	would	Cucullin		Fin			with the same sauce	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent fin=Recipient with sauce=Theme
6	catch a condition, not said to happen	could	Cucullin	giant					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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