Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2
In addition to the Council which was being held, there were games and tournaments and brilliant deployments of troops, and universal feastings and enjoyments.
Who acts: games · What happens: hold, be, deploy · To what, where: Council, addition, troops
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 (games), 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 | _ | 2 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 were | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Council | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Council | det |
| 5 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 addition | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 held | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | aux:pass |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 held | aux:pass |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Council | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tournaments | cc |
| 15 | tournaments | tournament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 games | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deployments | cc |
| 17 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deployments | amod |
| 18 | deployments | deployment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 games | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 troops | case |
| 20 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 deployments | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feastings | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 feastings | cc |
| 23 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feastings | amod |
| 24 | feastings | feasting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 enjoyments | cc |
| 26 | enjoyments | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feastings | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | the Council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | games and tournaments and brilliant deployments of troops | addition to the Council; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in addition=Location | ||||
| 3 | deploy | troops | nom deployment «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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