Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2

He had been Ard-Ri for nine years, and during his term the corn used to be reaped three times in each year, and there was full and plenty of everything.

Who acts: Ireland, corn, Ard Ri, Ri · What happens: be, use, reap, term · To what, where: Ard Ri

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 (Ireland, corn, Ard Ri, Ri), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Ri	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Ri	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Ri	cop
4	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ri	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Ri	punct
6	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 full	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Ri	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 used	cc
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 term	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 term	nmod:poss
14	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 used	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 corn	det
16	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 used	nsubj
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Ri	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 reaped	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 reaped	aux:pass
20	reaped	reap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 used	xcomp
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reaped	obl:unmarked
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 year	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 year	det
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reaped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 was	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 full	cop
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 plenty	cc
32	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 full	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 everything	case
34	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 plenty	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	Ireland	Ard Ri	year		tree rules
2	use	past	the corn	Ard Ri not said here	during Ri's term		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ri=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	reap	to-infinitive · passive	the corn not said here		time; year		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»
4	is	past	Ard Ri			full property	tree rules
5	term		Ri				nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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