Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 8

He called his nobles together and discussed what was the best thing to be done, and it was arranged that he should visit the provincial kings and ask boons from them.

Who acts: Mongan · What happens: call, discuss, be, do, arrange, visit · To what, where: nobles, best thing, thing, provincial kings, boons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nobles	nmod:poss
4	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 called	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 discussed	cc
7	discussed	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 thing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discussed	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	15 done	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 done	aux:pass
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thing	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arranged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 arranged	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 arranged	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 arranged	aux:pass
20	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 called	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 visit	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 visit	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 visit	aux
24	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 arranged	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 kings	det
26	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kings	amod
27	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 visit	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ask	cc
29	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 visit	conj
30	boons	boon	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ask	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ask	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Mongan	Mongan's nobles	together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noble=Recipient
2	discuss speech: other	past	Mongan not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		the best thing		tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»
5	arrange	past · passive		thing		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
6	visit	should	Mongan	the provincial kings		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent
7	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Mongan not said here	boons	from boons = boon	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient

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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