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title: The Lochlannachs were driven back to their ships, and within a week… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lochlannachs were driven back to their ships, and within a week the only Danes remaining in Ireland were those that had been buried there. Who acts: only Danes. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6

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The Lochlannachs were driven back to their ships, and within a week the only Danes remaining in Ireland were those that had been buried there.

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**Who acts:** only Danes · **What happens:** drive back, remain, be, bury · **To what, where:** Lochlannachs, Ireland, only Danes

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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 (only Danes), 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:pg2892:35:6
# text = The Lochlannachs were driven back to their ships, and within a week the only Danes remaining in Ireland were those that had been buried there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lochlannachs	Lochlannach	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
17	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive back** | past · passive |  | the Lochlannachs |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund | the only Danes *not said here* |  |  | Ireland |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the only Danes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bury** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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