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title: The Ard-Ri, Corm of the Hundred Battles, had taken his place on the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ard-Ri, Corm of the Hundred Battles, had taken his place on the raised dais which commanded the whole of that vast hall. Who acts: raised dais. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 21

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The Ard-Ri, Corm of the Hundred Battles, had taken his place on the raised dais which commanded the whole of that vast hall.

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**Who acts:** raised dais · **What happens:** take, raise, command · **To what, where:** Ard Ri, raised dais, whole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raised dais), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:24:21
# text = The Ard-Ri, Corm of the Hundred Battles, had taken his place on the raised dais which commanded the whole of that vast hall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Ard	Ard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ri	Ri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Corm	Corm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	Battles	Battle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	dais	dais	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Ard Ri and Corm of the Hundred Battles |  | the raised dais |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |
| 2 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **command** | past | the raised dais | the whole |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent whole=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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