Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 6
Therefore, when the feast was over and the banquet had commenced, the Hundred Fighter stood from his throne and looked over his assembled people.
Who acts: feast, Hundred · What happens: be, commence, stand, look, assemble · To what, where: banquet, throne
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 (feast, Hundred), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 over | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 over | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feast | det |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 over | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Therefore | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 commenced | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 banquet | det |
| 10 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commenced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 commenced | aux |
| 12 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Therefore | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hundred | det |
| 15 | Hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | Fighter | Fighter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 throne | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 throne | nmod:poss |
| 20 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stood | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 people | nmod:poss |
| 25 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 looked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | commence | past · perfect · passive | the banquet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the Hundred | Fighter's throne | therefore property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | look | past | the Hundred not said here | over Fighter's assembled people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over people=Theme | ||||
| 5 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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