Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8

When they reached Ben Edair it was decided to pitch camp so that the troops might rest in view of the warlike plan which Fionn had imagined for the morrow.

Who acts: battles, troops · What happens: reach, decide, pitch, rest, imagine, view · To what, where: Ben, army, camp, view, warlike plan

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battles, troops), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
5	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ben	flat
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 decided	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 decided	aux:pass
8	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reached	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pitch	mark
10	pitch	pitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 decided	xcomp
11	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pitch	obj
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 rest	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 rest	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 troops	det
15	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 rest	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rest	aux
17	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pitch	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 view	case
19	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rest	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 plan	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 plan	det
22	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 plan	amod
23	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 view	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 imagined	nsubj:pass
25	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 imagined	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 imagined	aux
27	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 plan	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 morrow	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 morrow	det
30	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 imagined	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	battles = battle	Ben			tree rules
2	decide	past · passive		army			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	pitch not said to happen	to-infinitive		camp			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme
4	rest	might	the troops		view of the warlike plan		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in view=Location
5	imagine	past · perfect · passive		the warlike plan		for the morrow	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	view			the warlike plan			nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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