Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 38

He already venerated Finegas for his great learning, his poetic skill, for an hundred reasons; but, looking on him as the ordained eater of the Salmon of Knowledge, he venerated him to the edge of measure.

Who acts: poet · What happens: venerate, look, ordain · To what, where: Finegas

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 venerated	nsubj
2	already	already	ADV	_	3 venerated	advmod
3	venerated	venerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 venerated	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 learning	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 learning	nmod:poss
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 learning	amod
8	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 venerated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 skill	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 skill	nmod:poss
11	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 skill	amod
12	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learning	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reasons	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 reasons	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 reasons	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 reasons	nummod
17	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 skill	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 venerated	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 venerated	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 venerated	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looking	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 eater	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eater	det
26	ordained	ordain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 eater	amod
27	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Salmon	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Salmon	det
30	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 eater	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Knowledge	case
32	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Salmon	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 venerated	nsubj
35	venerated	venerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 venerated	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 venerated	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 edge	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 edge	det
39	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 venerated	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 measure	case
41	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 edge	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 venerated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	venerate	past	poet	Finegas	for poet's great learning and poet's poetic skill and a hundred reasons	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer finegas=Stimulus for learning=Attribute
2	look	gerund	poet not said here		on poet; as the ordained eater of the Salmon of Knowledge	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme
3	ordain	participle				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	venerate	past	poet	Finegas	to the edge of measure	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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