Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 6

There was the High King’s palace with its fortification; without it was another fortification enclosing the four minor palaces, each of which was maintained by one of the four provincial kings; without that again was the great banqueting hall, and around it and enclosing all of the sacred hill in its gigantic bound ran the main outer ramparts of Tara.

Who acts: palace, fortification, that, great banqueting hall · What happens: be, enclose, maintain, banquet · To what, where: four minor palaces, each, great banqueting hall, all, hall

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 (palace, fortification, that, great banqueting hall), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 ran	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
4	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 palace	amod
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 palace	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 fortification	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fortification	nmod:poss
10	fortification	fortification	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palace	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fortification	punct
12	without	without	ADP	_	16 fortification	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fortification	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fortification	cop
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 fortification	det
16	fortification	fortification	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
17	enclosing	enclose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 fortification	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palaces	det
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 palaces	nummod
20	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 palaces	amod
21	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 enclosing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 maintained	punct
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 maintained	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 each	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 maintained	aux:pass
27	maintained	maintain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fortification	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 maintained	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 kings	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kings	det
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 kings	nummod
33	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 kings	amod
34	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 hall	punct
36	without	without	ADP	_	37 that	case
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 hall	nsubj
38	again	again	ADV	_	37 that	advmod
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 hall	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hall	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hall	amod
42	banqueting	banquet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 hall	amod
43	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 ran	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 enclosing	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 enclosing	cc
46	around	around	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 enclosing	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 enclosing	cc
49	enclosing	enclose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 hall	acl:relcl
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 enclosing	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 hill	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 hill	det
53	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 hill	amod
54	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 all	nmod
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 bound	case
56	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 bound	nmod:poss
57	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 bound	amod
58	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 enclosing	obl
59	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 ramparts	det
61	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 ramparts	amod
62	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 ramparts	amod
63	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 ran	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 Tara	case
65	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 ramparts	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	palace			without another fortification	tree rules
2	enclose	gerund	another fortification not said here	the four minor palaces			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Co-Theme
3	maintain	past · passive		each		by one of the four provincial kings	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme
4	banquet	gerund					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	that	the great banqueting hall			tree rules
6	enclose	gerund	the great banqueting hall not said here	all	hall	in hall's gigantic bound	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Co-Theme
7	is	past	the great banqueting hall			run property	tree rules

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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