Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 14

But before that time no man had come to Ireland, and in the western parts of the world no human being lived or moved.

Who acts: man · What happens: come, live, move · To what, where: Ireland, western parts, human

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Ireland	case
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 parts	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 parts	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 parts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 parts	det
15	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 parts	amod
16	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 parts	nmod
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 human	det
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lived	nsubj
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lived	aux:pass
23	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 parts	acl:relcl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 moved	cc
25	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lived	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	no man		Ireland	the western parts of the world	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial_Location
2	live	gerund · passive		no human				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
3	move	participle						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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