Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 22

At his Right hand his son Art, to be afterwards as famous as his famous father, took his seat, and on his left Goll mor mac Morna, chief of the Fianna of Ireland, had the seat of honour.

Who acts: son · What happens: be, take, have · To what, where: seat, Right hand, left Goll mor mac

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 (son), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 hand	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	Right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hand	amod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	nsubj
7	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 famous	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	13 famous	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 famous	cop
11	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	13 famous	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 famous	advmod
13	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 father	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
16	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 father	amod
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 famous	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 father	punct
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 seat	nmod:poss
21	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 had	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	29 mac	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mac	nmod:poss
26	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mac	amod
27	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mac	compound
28	mor	mor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mac	compound
29	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obl
30	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mac	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 chief	punct
32	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Morna	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Fianna	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Fianna	det
35	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 chief	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Ireland	case
37	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Fianna	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mac	punct
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 seat	det
41	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 honour	case
43	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seat	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				as dais's famous father; afterwards, famous property	tree rules
2	take	past	dais's son	dais's seat	dais's Right hand		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme at hand=Asset
3	have	past	dais's son not said here	the seat of honour	dais's left Goll mor mac		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=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: «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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