Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 34

Mongan then called some of his own people, and before any more words could be said and before any alteration could be made, he set his men behind the cows and marched home with them to Ulster.

Who acts: Mongan · What happens: call, say, make, set, march · To what, where: some, more words, men, Ulster · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 called	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 people	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 some	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 words	det
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 words	amod
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	nsubj:pass
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 said	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	aux:pass
17	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 called	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
19	before	before	ADP	_	21 alteration	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 alteration	det
21	alteration	alteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 set	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 set	nsubj
27	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 men	nmod:poss
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 set	obj
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	32 cows	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cows	det
32	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 set	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 marched	cc
34	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 set	conj
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 marched	advmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 marched	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Ulster	case
39	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 marched	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Mongan	some		then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	could · passive		any more words				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	make	could · passive				before any alteration		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	set	past	Mongan	Mongan's men			behind the cows	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme behind cow=Destination
5	march	past	Mongan not said here		Ulster		with words = word; home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ulster=Result

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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