Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 1

Mongan and his servant went home, and (for what pleasure is greater than that of memory exercised in conversation?) for a time the feeling of an adventure well accomplished kept him in some contentment.

Who acts: Mongan, feeling · What happens: go, be, exercise, accomplish, keep · To what, where: memory, conversation, time, feeling, contentment

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, feeling), 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	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 servant	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servant	nmod:poss
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mongan	conj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 greater	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 greater	cc
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 greater	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 pleasure	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 pleasure	nsubj
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 greater	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 greater	cop
14	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 went	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 greater	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 memory	case
18	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 that	nmod
19	exercised	exercise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 memory	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 conversation	case
21	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exercised	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 greater	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 greater	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 feeling	det
28	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 accomplished	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 adventure	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 adventure	det
31	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feeling	nmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 accomplished	advmod
33	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	acl:relcl
34	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kept	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 contentment	case
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 contentment	det
38	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kept	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mongan and his servant			time	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present					for pleasure; than that; great property	tree rules
3	exercise	participle		memory not said here	conversation			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	accomplish	past	the feeling of a adventure	a time not said here			well property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality
5	keep	past	Mongan and his servant not said here	feeling	some contentment			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in contentment=Location

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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