Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 36

He marched back singing to the encampment, and men saw once more the merry Chief they had almost forgotten.

Who acts: joy, men · What happens: march back, sing, see, forget · To what, where: encampment, merry Chief · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (joy, men), 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	back	back	ADV	_	2 marched	advmod
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 marched	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 encampment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 encampment	det
7	encampment	encampment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 marched	conj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 Chief	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Chief	det
15	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Chief	amod
16	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 forgotten	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 forgotten	aux
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 forgotten	advmod
20	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 saw	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	march back	past	joy				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	joy not said here		the encampment		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to encampment=Recipient
3	see	past	men	the merry Chief			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	forget	past · perfect	men = man			almost property	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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