Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1

For many years after that time, when he was not fighting against the enemies of Ireland, Fionn was searching and hunting through the length and breadth of the country in the hope that he might again chance on his lovely lady from the Shi’.

Who acts: he, Fionn · What happens: not fight, search, hunt, chance · To what, where: length

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, Fionn), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fighting	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 fighting	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fighting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fighting	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fighting	advmod
12	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 time	parataxis
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 enemies	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 enemies	det
15	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fighting	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Ireland	case
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 enemies	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 searching	punct
19	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 searching	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 searching	aux
21	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 Ireland	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hunting	cc
23	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fighting	conj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 length	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 length	det
26	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hunting	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 breadth	cc
28	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 length	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 country	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 country	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 length	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hope	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hope	det
34	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hunting	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 chance	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 chance	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 chance	aux
38	again	again	ADV	_	39 chance	advmod
39	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hunting	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 lady	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 lady	nmod:poss
42	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 lady	amod
43	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 chance	nmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 Shi	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Shi	det
46	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 lady	nmod
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 lady	punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight	past · progressive	he			against the enemies of Ireland	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	search	past · progressive	Fionn				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	gerund	he not said here	the length of the country and breadth		in the hope	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent through length=Location
4	chance	might	Fionn		again	on Fionn's lovely lady from the Shi	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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