Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1

In the year when Ciaran the son of the Carpenter died, the same year when Tuathal Maelgariv was killed and the year when Diarmait the son of Cerrbel became king of all Ireland, the year 538 of our era in short, it happened that there was a great gathering of the men of Ireland at the Hill of Uisneach in Royal Meath.

Who acts: son, Diarmait, it, great gathering · What happens: die, kill, become, happen, be · To what, where: Tuathal, king

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Diarmait, it, great gathering), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 Ciaran	advmod
5	Ciaran	Ciaran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 year	appos
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Carpenter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Carpenter	det
10	Carpenter	Carpenter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 year	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 year	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 year	amod
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	obl
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 killed	mark
17	Tuathal	Tuathal	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 killed	nsubj:pass
18	Maelgariv	Maelgariv	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tuathal	flat
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 killed	aux:pass
20	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 died	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 year	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 year	det
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 killed	conj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 became	advmod
25	Diarmait	Diarmait	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 became	nsubj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Diarmait	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Cerrbel	case
29	Cerrbel	Cerrbel	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 killed	conj
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 became	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Ireland	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 Ireland	det
34	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 king	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 year	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 year	det
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Ireland	appos
38	538	538	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 year	flat
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 era	case
40	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 era	nmod:poss
41	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 year	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 short	case
43	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 era	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 happened	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 happened	nsubj
46	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 died	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 was	mark
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 was	expl
49	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 happened	advcl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 gathering	det
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 gathering	amod
52	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 was	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 men	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 men	det
55	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 gathering	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 Ireland	case
57	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 men	nmod
58	at	at	ADP	_	60 Hill	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Hill	det
60	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 men	nmod
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 Uisneach	case
62	Uisneach	Uisneach	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Hill	nmod
63	in	in	ADP	_	64 Royal	case
64	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 Uisneach	nmod
65	Meath	Meath	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 Royal	flat
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	die	past	the son of the Carpenter			year	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	kill	past · passive		Tuathal			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	become	past	Diarmait	king of all Ireland			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	happen	past	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	a great gathering of the men of Ireland at the Hill of Uisneach in Royal		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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