Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 32

She made inquiries and was informed where the dun of Curoi mac Dare’ was, and when she had received this intelligence she set out for Sliev Mis.

Who acts: Becuma, dun · What happens: make, inform, be, receive, set out · To what, where: inquiries, intelligence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma, dun), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 informed	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 informed	aux:pass
6	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 made	conj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 was	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dun	det
9	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Dare	case
11	Curoi	Curoi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Dare	compound
12	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Dare	compound
13	Dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dun	nmod
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Dare	punct
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 informed	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 received	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 received	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 received	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 received	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 received	aux
21	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 made	parataxis
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 intelligence	det
23	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 received	obj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
25	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 intelligence	acl:relcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 Mis	case
28	Sliev	Sliev	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Mis	compound
29	Mis	Mis	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 set	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Becuma	inquiries		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product
2	inform speech: other	past · passive	Becuma not said here			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic
3	be	past	the dun of Curoi mac Dare			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	receive	past · perfect	Becuma	this intelligence		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intelligence=Theme
5	set out	past	Becuma	this intelligence not said here	for Sliev Mis	tree rules

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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