Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 4
A great and joyous concourse of people streamed about them.
What happens: stream · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 concourse | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 concourse | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 joyous | cc |
| 4 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 great | conj |
| 5 | concourse | concourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 concourse | nmod |
| 8 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 people | acl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 streamed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concourse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | participle | people not said here | about heart | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about they=Location |
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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