Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 10

But the men of Ireland and the magicians stated that the king had gone to Faery for a special purpose, and that his acts outside or contrary to that purpose were illegal, and committed no person to obedience.

Who acts: men, king, acts · What happens: state, go, be, commit, act · To what, where: Faery, person, obedience · 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 (men, king, acts), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 stated	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stated	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ireland	case
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 magicians	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magicians	det
8	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 men	conj
9	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 stated	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Faery	case
16	Faery	faery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 purpose	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 purpose	det
19	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 purpose	amod
20	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 illegal	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 illegal	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 illegal	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 acts	nmod:poss
25	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 illegal	nsubj
26	outside	outside	ADV	_	25 acts	advmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 contrary	cc
28	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 acts	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 purpose	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 purpose	det
31	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 contrary	obl
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 illegal	cop
33	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stated	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 committed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 committed	cc
36	committed	commit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stated	conj
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 person	det
38	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 committed	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 obedience	case
40	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 committed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past	the men of Ireland and the magicians				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past · perfect	the king		Faery	for a special purpose	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to faery=Initial_Location
3	is	past	King's acts			illegal property	tree rules
4	commit	past	the men of Ireland and the magicians not said here	no person	obedience		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to obedience=Destination
5	act		King				nom act «communication intransitive»: 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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