Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 2

The man was a right good man, and he had a goodly share of this world's goods.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have, share · To what, where: right good man, goodly share, goods

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 share	det
13	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 share	amod
14	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 goods	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 goods	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 world	case
19	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 share	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the man	a right good man	tree rules
2	have	past	man	a goodly share of this world's goods	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient
3	share			this world's goods	nom share «possession 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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