Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 129

Thus did Fin, through the wit and invention of Oonagh, his wife, succeed in overcoming his enemy by cunning, which he never could have done by force.

Who acts: you, Cucullin · What happens: do, succeed, overcome, not do, invent · To what, where: Fin, wit, enemy, cunning, Oonagh

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 (you, 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 succeed	advcl
3	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 wit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wit	det
7	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 succeed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 invention	cc
9	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wit	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Oonagh	case
11	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 invention	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wit	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wit	punct
16	succeed	succeed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 overcoming	mark
18	overcoming	overcome	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 succeed	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 enemy	nmod:poss
20	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 overcoming	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 cunning	case
22	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 overcoming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 done	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 done	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 done	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 done	advmod
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 done	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 done	aux
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 cunning	acl:relcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 force	case
31	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 done	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 succeed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	you not said here	Fin		thus property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Eventuality
2	succeed	imperative	you not said here		the wit and invention of Oonagh and Cucullin's wife		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	overcome	gerund	you not said here	Cucullin's enemy		by cunning	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enemy=Theme
4	not do	could · perfect	Cucullin	cunning		by force	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
5	invent			Oonagh			nom invention «cognition 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: «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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