Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 11

There were debates in the Council Hall, in the market-place, in the streets of Tara, some holding that national honour dissolved and absolved all personal honour, and others protesting that no man had aught but his personal honour, and that above it not the gods, not even Ireland, could be placed--for it is to be known that Ireland is a god.

Who acts: debates, some, others, man, national honour · What happens: be, hold, dissolve, absolve, protest, have · To what, where: streets, national honour, personal honour, aught, that, honour · 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 (debates, some, others, man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	debates	debate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 Hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hall	det
6	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hall	compound
7	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 debates	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 market	punct
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 streets	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 streets	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 streets	det
17	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Tara	case
19	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 streets	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 holding	punct
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 holding	nsubj
22	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 streets	acl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	72 god	mark
24	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 honour	amod
25	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 god	nsubj
26	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 honour	acl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 absolved	cc
28	absolved	absolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 dissolved	conj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 honour	det
30	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 honour	amod
31	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 absolved	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 protesting	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 protesting	cc
34	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 protesting	nsubj
35	protesting	protest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 honour	acl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 protesting	ccomp
40	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	39 had	obj
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 honour	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 honour	nmod:poss
43	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 honour	amod
44	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 aught	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 placed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 placed	cc
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 placed	nsubj
48	above	above	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 that	nmod
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 gods	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 gods	det
52	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 placed	nsubj:pass
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 Ireland	punct
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 Ireland	advmod
55	even	even	ADV	_	56 Ireland	advmod
56	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 gods	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 gods	punct
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 placed	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 placed	aux:pass
60	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 had	conj
61	--	--	PUNCT	_	67 known	punct
62	for	for	SCONJ	_	67 known	mark
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 known	nsubj:pass
64	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 known	aux:pass
65	to	to	PART	_	67 known	mark
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 known	aux:pass
67	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 placed	conj
68	that	that	SCONJ	_	69 Ireland	mark
69	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 known	obl
70	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 god	cop
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 god	det
72	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 holding	ccomp
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	debates in the Council Hall		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	gerund	some	the streets of Tara not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme
3	dissolve	participle		national honour not said here			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	absolve	participle		all personal honour			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer honour=Source
5	protest speech: disagree	gerund	others	national honour not said here			tree rules
6	have	past	no man	aught			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Patient
7	place	could · passive		that			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
8	know	present · passive		honour		Ireland obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
9	is a	present	national honour	a god			tree rules
10	honour		man				nom honour «state 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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