Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 9

He set out at once on his round of visits, and the first province he went to was Leinster.

Who acts: Mongan, first province · What happens: set out, go, be · To what, where: round

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, first province), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 set	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 round	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 round	nmod:poss
8	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 visits	case
10	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 round	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 province	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 province	amod
15	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Leinster	case
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Leinster	cop
20	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	Mongan	Mongan's round of visits		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the first province			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past			to Leinster	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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