Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 89
Then the hall was cleansed and the banquet recommenced.
Who acts: banquet · What happens: cleanse, recommence · To what, where: hall
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 (banquet), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cleansed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hall | det |
| 3 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cleansed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cleansed | aux:pass |
| 5 | cleansed | cleanse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 recommenced | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 banquet | det |
| 8 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recommenced | nsubj |
| 9 | recommenced | recommence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cleansed | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cleansed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cleanse | past · passive | the hall | then | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | recommence | past | the banquet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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