Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4

Once, when seven years had passed in fruitless search, Fionn and the chief nobles of the Fianna were hunting Ben Gulbain.

What happens: pass, hunt · To what, where: seven years, fruitless search, Ben

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: 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 passed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 passed	advmod
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 search	case
9	fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 search	amod
10	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Fionn	punct
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 search	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nobles	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nobles	det
15	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nobles	amod
16	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Fionn	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Fianna	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fianna	det
19	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 nobles	nmod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hunting	aux
21	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 passed	advcl
22	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 hunting	obj
23	Gulbain	Gulbain	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ben	flat
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		seven years		fruitless search		once property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in search=Destination
2	hunt	past · progressive		Ben					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ben=Theme

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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