Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 7

It was in this last, the sacred place of his own lordship, that Conn laid his wife to rest.

Who acts: mound, Conn · What happens: be, lay, rest · To what, where: that

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 (mound, Conn), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 last	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 last	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 last	nsubj
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 last	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 lordship	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lordship	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lordship	amod
13	lordship	lordship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 laid	obj
16	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 laid	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 place	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 laid	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	mound		the sacred place of Meath's own lordship obl; last property	tree rules
2	lay	past	Conn	that		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme wife=Destination
3	rest	to-infinitive	Conn not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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