Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 9
The fame and name of him went far and near; and nothing in the shape of a man, it was said, had any chance with him in a fight.
Who acts: fame · What happens: go, say, have, name · To what, where: nothing, shape, chance, fight, Cucullin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fame), 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 fame | det |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 name | cc |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fame | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 near | cc |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 far | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 nothing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nothing | cc |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 shape | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shape | det |
| 16 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shape | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux:pass |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 nothing | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 chance | det |
| 27 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 fight | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fight | det |
| 32 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fame and name of Cucullin | nothing | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · passive | shape | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the fame and name of Cucullin not said here | any chance | a fight | with Cucullin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||
| 4 | name | Cucullin | nom name «communication 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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