Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 21
The Ard-Ri, Corm of the Hundred Battles, had taken his place on the raised dais which commanded the whole of that vast hall.
Who acts: raised dais · What happens: take, raise, command · To what, where: Ard Ri, raised dais, whole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raised dais), 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 | 4 Ri | det |
| 2 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ri | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ard | punct |
| 4 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Corm | punct |
| 6 | Corm | Corm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ri | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Battles | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Battles | det |
| 9 | Hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Battles | nummod |
| 10 | Battles | Battle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Corm | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ri | punct |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 dais | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dais | det |
| 18 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dais | amod |
| 19 | dais | dais | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 commanded | nsubj |
| 21 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dais | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 whole | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 commanded | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hall | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 hall | det |
| 26 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hall | amod |
| 27 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whole | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the Ard Ri and Corm of the Hundred Battles | the raised dais | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | ||||
| 2 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | command | past | the raised dais | the whole | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent whole=Eventuality |
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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