Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7

Among the young princes of his household there was one, Crimthann, son of Ae, King of Leinster, whom the High King preferred to the others over whom he held fatherly sway.

Who acts: King · What happens: prefer, hold · To what, where: Crimthann, fatherly sway

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	4 princes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princes	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 princes	amod
4	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 household	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 household	nmod:poss
7	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 princes	nmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 household	acl:relcl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 was	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Crimthann	punct
12	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 princes	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 son	punct
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Crimthann	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ae	case
16	Ae	Ae	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Crimthann	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Leinster	case
20	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 King	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 preferred	punct
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 preferred	nsubj:pass
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
24	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 King	amod
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 preferred	nsubj
26	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Crimthann	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 others	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 others	det
29	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 preferred	obl
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 whom	case
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 others	nmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 held	nsubj
33	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 whom	acl:relcl
34	fatherly	fatherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sway	amod
35	sway	sway	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 held	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 princes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	participle · passive		Crimthann				to the others	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	hold	past	King	fatherly sway					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sway=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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