Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 34

Being quite re-established he undertook the conversion of the master of the house, and the siege he laid against that notable intelligence was long spoken of among those who are interested in such things.

Who acts: master · What happens: re-establish, undertake, lay, speak, be, convert · To what, where: conversion, siege, notable intelligence, such things, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 re-established	aux:pass
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 re-established	advmod
3	re-established	re-establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 undertook	parataxis
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 undertook	nsubj
5	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 conversion	det
7	conversion	conversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 undertook	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 master	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conversion	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 master	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spoken	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spoken	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 siege	det
17	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoken	nsubj:pass
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	nsubj
19	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 siege	acl:relcl
20	against	against	ADP	_	23 intelligence	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 intelligence	det
22	notable	notable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 intelligence	amod
23	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spoken	aux:pass
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spoken	amod
26	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 undertook	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 those	case
28	among	among	ADP	_	29 those	case
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 spoken	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 interested	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 interested	cop
32	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 those	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 things	case
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 things	amod
35	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 interested	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	re-establish	gerund · passive					tree rules
2	undertake	past	master	the conversion of the master of the house			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversion=Eventuality
3	lay	past	master	the siege not said here	that notable intelligence		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent siege=Theme against intelligence=Destination
4	speak speech: other	past · passive		the siege		of those	tree rules
5	is	present			such things	interested property	tree rules
6	convert			the master of the house			nom conversion «event 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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