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title: From it, the centre of Ireland, four great roads went, north, south,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From it, the centre of Ireland, four great roads went, north, south, east, and west, and along these roads, from the top and the bottom and the two sides of Ireland, there moved for weeks before Samhain an endless stream of passengers. Who acts: four great roads. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 7

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From it, the centre of Ireland, four great roads went, north, south, east, and west, and along these roads, from the top and the bottom and the two sides of Ireland, there moved for weeks before Samhain an endless stream of passengers.

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**Who acts:** four great roads · **What happens:** go, move · **To what, where:** centre, endless stream, roads

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four great roads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:24:7
# text = From it, the centre of Ireland, four great roads went, north, south, east, and west, and along these roads, from the top and the bottom and the two sides of Ireland, there moved for weeks before Samhain an endless stream of passengers.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	north	north	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	south	south	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	east	east	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	west	west	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
41	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
45	before	before	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | four great roads |  |  | the centre of Ireland |  | south, west *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from centre=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **move** | participle | four great roads *not said here* | a endless stream of passengers |  | this roads and the top and the bottom and the two sides of Ireland; there | before Samhain; week |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme along road=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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