Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 7

From it, the centre of Ireland, four great roads went, north, south, east, and west, and along these roads, from the top and the bottom and the two sides of Ireland, there moved for weeks before Samhain an endless stream of passengers.

Who acts: four great roads · What happens: go, move · To what, where: centre, endless stream, roads

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 (four great roads), 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	From	from	ADP	_	5 centre	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 centre	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 centre	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 centre	det
5	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Ireland	case
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 centre	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 centre	punct
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 roads	nummod
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roads	amod
11	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 south	punct
14	north	north	ADV	_	16 south	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 south	punct
16	south	south	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 east	punct
18	east	east	ADV	_	16 south	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 west	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 west	cc
21	west	west	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 moved	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 moved	cc
24	along	along	ADP	_	26 roads	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 roads	det
26	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 moved	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 top	punct
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roads	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bottom	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bottom	det
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roads	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sides	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sides	det
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 sides	nummod
37	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 roads	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Ireland	case
39	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 sides	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 roads	punct
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 moved	advmod
42	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 went	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 weeks	case
44	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 moved	obl
45	before	before	ADP	_	46 Samhain	case
46	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 moved	obl
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 stream	det
48	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 stream	amod
49	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 moved	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 passengers	case
51	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 stream	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	four great roads			the centre of Ireland		south, west property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from centre=Initial_Location
2	move	participle	four great roads not said here	a endless stream of passengers		this roads and the top and the bottom and the two sides of Ireland; there	before Samhain; week		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme along road=Trajectory

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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