Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 24

And on that, the kings and magicians who were present bound themselves to the fulfilment of the bargain.

Who acts: kings · What happens: be, fulfil · To what, where: that, bargain

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 present	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 present	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kings	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kings	det
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 present	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 magicians	cc
8	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kings	conj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 present	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 present	cop
11	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	bound	bound	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 present	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fulfilment	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fulfilment	det
16	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 present	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bargain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bargain	det
19	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fulfilment	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the kings and magicians			that		bound magicians = magician; to the fulfilment of the bargain; present property	tree rules
2	fulfil			the bargain					nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=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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