--- title: There were debates in the Council Hall, in the market-place, in the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There were debates in the Council Hall, in the market-place, in the streets of Tara, some holding that national honour dissolved and absolved all personal honour, and others protesting that no man had aught but his personal honour, and that above it not the gods, not even Ireland, could be placed--f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/) / 11 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 11 There were debates in the Council Hall, in the market-place, in the streets of Tara, some holding that national honour dissolved and absolved all personal honour, and others protesting that no man had aught but his personal honour, and that above it not the gods, not even Ireland, could be placed--for it is to be known that Ireland is a god. **Who acts:** debates, some, others, man, national honour · **What happens:** be, hold, dissolve, absolve, protest, have · **To what, where:** streets, national honour, personal honour, aught, that, honour · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (debates, some, others, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:68:11 # text = There were debates in the Council Hall, in the market-place, in the streets of Tara, some holding that national honour dissolved and absolved all personal honour, and others protesting that no man had aught but his personal honour, and that above it not the gods, not even Ireland, could be placed--for it is to be known that Ireland is a god. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 debates debate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Tara Tara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 22 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 acl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 72 mark _ _ 24 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 nsubj _ _ 26 dissolved dissolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 absolved absolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 30 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 protesting protest VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 40 aught aught PRON NN PronType=Ind 39 obj _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 47 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 60 nsubj _ _ 48 above above ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nmod _ _ 50 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 56 advmod _ _ 55 even even ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 58 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 59 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 60 aux:pass _ _ 60 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 -- -- PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 for for SCONJ IN _ 67 mark _ _ 63 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj:pass _ _ 64 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 aux:pass _ _ 65 to to PART TO _ 67 mark _ _ 66 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 67 aux:pass _ _ 67 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 conj _ _ 68 that that SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 69 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 67 obl _ _ 70 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 72 cop _ _ 71 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | debates in the Council Hall | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | some | the streets of Tara *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme | | 3 | **dissolve** | participle | | national honour *not said here* | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **absolve** | participle | | all personal honour | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer honour=Source | | 5 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | gerund | others | national honour *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | no man | aught | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Patient | | 7 | **place** | could · passive | | that | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **know** | present · passive | | honour | | | | Ireland *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 9 | **is a** | present | national honour | a god | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **honour** | | man | | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/)