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title: He was welcomed, and he stayed at the Court of Lochlann in great eas… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was welcomed, and he stayed at the Court of Lochlann in great ease and in the midst of pleasures. Who acts: Neill. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 3

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He was welcomed, and he stayed at the Court of Lochlann in great ease and in the midst of pleasures.

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**Who acts:** Neill · **What happens:** welcome, stay · **To what, where:** Neill, Court

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neill), 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:pg2892:76:3
# text = He was welcomed, and he stayed at the Court of Lochlann in great ease and in the midst of pleasures.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | past · passive |  | Neill |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | past | Neill |  |  | the Court of Lochlann |  | in great ease and the midst of pleasures | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |

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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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