Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 3

The gathering lasted for a week, and on the last day of the week Mongan was moving through the crowd with seven guards, his story-teller Cairide’, and his wife.

Who acts: gathering · What happens: last, move · To what, where: wife, crowd

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gathering), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gathering	det
2	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	nsubj
3	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 moving	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moving	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 moving	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 week	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 week	det
15	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
16	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 week	appos
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 moving	aux
18	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lasted	advcl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 crowd	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crowd	det
21	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 moving	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 guards	case
23	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 guards	nummod
24	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 crowd	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 teller	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 teller	nmod:poss
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 teller	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 story	punct
29	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crowd	conj
30	Cairide	Cairide	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 teller	appos
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 Cairide	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wife	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wife	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	the gathering	gathering's wife			week		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	move	past · progressive	the gathering not said here			the crowd with seven guards and gathering's story teller	day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through crowd=Trajectory

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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