Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 1

On reaching the palace Conn called his magicians and poets to a council and informed them that he had found the boy they sought--the son of a virgin.

Who acts: Conn, magicians · What happens: reach, call, inform, find, seek · To what, where: palace, magicians, council, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, magicians), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 reaching	mark
2	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 called	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reaching	obj
5	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 magicians	nmod:poss
8	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 poets	cc
10	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 magicians	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 council	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 council	det
13	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 informed	cc
15	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 informed	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 found	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	aux
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 informed	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sought	nsubj
24	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 boy	acl:relcl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 son	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 virgin	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 virgin	det
30	virgin	virgin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reach	gerund	Conn not said here	the palace			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2	call	past	Conn	Conn's magicians and poets	a council		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent magician=Topic to council=Recipient
3	inform speech: other	past	Conn not said here		magicians = magician		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	find	past · perfect	Conn	the boy		the son of a virgin obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
5	seek	past	magicians = magician	the boy not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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