Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 39

But the object for which they were travelling was different, although unknown, and the people they passed on the roads were unknown, and were yet people that they knew.

Who acts: landmarks, object, people · What happens: travel, be, pass, know · To what, where: people, roads

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landmarks, object, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1257): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 different	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 different	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 travelling	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 travelling	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 travelling	aux
8	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 object	acl:relcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 different	cop
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unknown	punct
12	although	although	SCONJ	_	13 unknown	mark
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 different	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unknown	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 unknown	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 unknown	nsubj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passed	nsubj
19	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 people	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 roads	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 roads	det
22	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 passed	obl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 unknown	cop
24	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 different	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 people	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 people	cc
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 people	cop
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 people	advmod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 unknown	conj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 knew	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 people	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · progressive	landmarks = landmark				for the object	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the object				different property	tree rules
3	pass	past	landmarks = landmark	the people not said here	the roads			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent people=Theme on road=Destination
4	is	past	the people				unknown property	tree rules
5	is a	past	the people not said here	people		yet		tree rules
6	know	past	landmarks = landmark	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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