Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 24

“Partholon’s people increased until from twenty-four couples there came five thousand people, who lived in amity and contentment although they had no wits.”

Who acts: people, twenty couples, thousand people, couples · What happens: increase, come, live, have · To what, where: thousand people, amity, wits · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, twenty couples, thousand people, couples), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 increased	punct
2	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Partholon	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 increased	nsubj
5	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	until	until	ADP	_	11 couples	case
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 twenty	case
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 couples	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 twenty	punct
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 twenty	flat
11	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 couples	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 increased	ccomp
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thousand	compound
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 people	nummod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 people	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 amity	case
21	amity	amity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 contentment	cc
23	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 amity	conj
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lived	advcl
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 wits	det
28	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 increased	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 increased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	increase in a quote	past	Partholon's people			tree rules
2	come in a quote	past	twenty couples	thousand people		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme
3	live in a quote	past	thousand people		amity and contentment	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in amity=Location
4	have in a quote	past	couples = couple	no wits		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=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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