Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 127

This was all Fin wanted, who now knew that his most powerful and bitterest enemy was at his mercy.

Who acts: Fin, This · What happens: want, know, be · To what, where: mercy

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 (Fin, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 mercy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mercy	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 mercy	nsubj
4	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 all	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 knew	nsubj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 knew	advmod
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wanted	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 powerful	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 powerful	nmod:poss
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 powerful	advmod
13	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knew	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 enemy	cc
15	bitterest	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 enemy	amod
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 powerful	conj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mercy	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 mercy	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mercy	nmod:poss
20	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 mercy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	want	past	Fin			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	know	past			now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	This	Cucullin's mercy		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: «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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