Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 1

He marched through the successive fortifications until he came to the outer, great wall, the boundary of the city, and when he had passed this he was on the wide plain of Tara.

Who acts: He, this · What happens: march, come, pass, be · To what, where: successive fortifications, outer great wall, wide plain

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marched	nsubj
2	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 fortifications	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fortifications	det
5	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fortifications	amod
6	fortifications	fortification	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 marched	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 marched	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	15 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
12	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wall	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 outer	punct
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wall	amod
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boundary	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boundary	det
18	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wall	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 city	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 city	det
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boundary	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 passed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 passed	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 passed	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 passed	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 passed	aux
27	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 marched	conj
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 plain	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 plain	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 plain	cop
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 plain	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 plain	det
33	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 plain	amod
34	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passed	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Tara	case
36	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 plain	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	march	past	He	the successive fortifications		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fortification=Trajectory
2	come	past	he	the outer great wall and the boundary of the city		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial_Location
3	pass	past · perfect	he			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	this	the wide plain	of Tara	tree rules

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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