Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 23

As the High King took his place he could see every person who was noted in the land for any reason.

Who acts: High King, dais · What happens: take, see, note · To what, where: place, person, land

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 (High King, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 took	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod:poss
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 noted	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 noted	aux:pass
15	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 person	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noted	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 reason	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 reason	det
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the High King	dais's place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	see	could	dais	every person			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
3	note	past · passive		every person	the land	for any reason	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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