Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 26

There was Dermod of the Gay Face, Caelte mac Ronan--but indeed there were too many to be told of, for all the pillars of war and battle-torches of the Gael were there.

Who acts: Dermod, pillars · What happens: be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dermod, pillars), 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Face	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Face	det
6	Gay	Gay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Face	compound
7	Face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Dermod	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Ronan	punct
9	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ronan	compound
10	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ronan	compound
11	Ronan	Ronan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Dermod	conj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 many	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 were	cc
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 were	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 many	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 told	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	aux:pass
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 many	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 told	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pillars	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 pillars	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 pillars	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pillars	det
27	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 told	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 war	case
29	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pillars	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 torches	cc
31	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 torches	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 battle	punct
33	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 war	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Gael	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Gael	det
36	Gael	Gael	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 torches	nmod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 there	cop
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 pillars	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	Dermod of the Gay Face and Caelte mac Ronan	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past			many property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive			for all pillars of war and battle torches of the Gael	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	is	past	all pillars of war and battle torches of the Gael not said here		there 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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