Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 4

It was Samhain-tide, and the feast of Tara was being held, at which all that was wise or skilful or well-born in Ireland were gathered together.

Who acts: bade, Samhain tide · What happens: be, hold, bear, gather · To what, where: Samhain tide, feast, Ireland, all

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 (bade, Samhain tide), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tide	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tide	cop
3	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tide	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tide	punct
5	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Tara	case
11	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 feast	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 held	aux:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 held	aux:pass
14	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tide	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gathered	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 gathered	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 gathered	nsubj:pass
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 wise	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wise	cop
21	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 all	acl:relcl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 skilful	cc
23	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wise	conj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 born	cc
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 born	advmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 well	punct
27	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wise	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Ireland	case
29	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 born	obl
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gathered	aux:pass
31	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 held	advcl
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 gathered	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bade	Samhain tide			tree rules
2	hold	past · passive	Samhain tide not said here	the feast of Tara			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past				wise property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules
5	bear	participle			Ireland	well property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	gather	past · passive		all		together property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at which=Asset

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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