Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8

A council had been called in the Many-Coloured Land to discuss the case of a lady named Becuma Cneisgel, that is, Becuma of the White Skin, the daughter of Eogan Inver.

Who acts: that · What happens: call, discuss, name, be · To what, where: council, Coloured Land, case, lady, Becuma · 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 (that), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 called	aux:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 Land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Land	det
8	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Coloured	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Many	punct
10	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Land	amod
11	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 discuss	mark
13	discuss	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 called	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 case	det
15	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 discuss	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 lady	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lady	det
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 case	nmod
19	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 lady	acl
20	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 named	xcomp
21	Cneisgel	Cneisgel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Becuma	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Becuma	punct
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 Becuma	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Becuma	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Becuma	punct
26	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 Skin	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Skin	det
29	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Skin	amod
30	Skin	Skin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Becuma	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 daughter	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 daughter	det
33	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Becuma	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Eogan	case
35	Eogan	Eogan	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 daughter	nmod
36	Inver	Inver	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Eogan	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past · perfect · passive		a council	the Coloured Land		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	discuss speech: other	to-infinitive		the case of a lady			vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Topic
3	name	participle		a lady not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	that	Becuma and the daughter of Eogan		of the White Skin	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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