Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 4

He had been married to Eithne, the daughter of Brisland Binn, King of Norway, and, next to his subjects, he loved his wife more than all that was lovable in the world.

Who acts: Ri, that · What happens: marry, love, be · To what, where: Ri, Eithne, wife, world

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 (Ri, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 married	aux:pass
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Eithne	case
6	Eithne	Eithne	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 married	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 daughter	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughter	det
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Eithne	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Brisland	case
11	Brisland	Brisland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod
12	Binn	Binn	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brisland	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 King	punct
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brisland	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Norway	case
16	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 King	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 loved	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 loved	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 next	punct
20	next	next	ADV	_	26 loved	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 subjects	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 subjects	nmod:poss
23	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 next	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 loved	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 loved	nsubj
26	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loved	obj
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 lovable	advmod
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 lovable	mark
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 lovable	det:predet
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 lovable	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lovable	cop
34	lovable	lovable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 loved	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lovable	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	past · perfect · passive		Ri	Eithne			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to eithne=Co-Patient
2	love	past	Ri	Ri's wife			next property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
3	is	past	that			the world	lovable 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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