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title: As the hunt swept along the sides of the hill there arose a great ou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the hunt swept along the sides of the hill there arose a great outcry of hounds from a narrow place high on the slope and, over all that uproar there came the savage baying of Fionn’s own dogs. Who acts: hunt, savage. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its depend
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6

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As the hunt swept along the sides of the hill there arose a great outcry of hounds from a narrow place high on the slope and, over all that uproar there came the savage baying of Fionn’s own dogs.

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**Who acts:** hunt, savage · **What happens:** sweep, arise, come, bay, outcry · **To what, where:** sides, great outcry, savage, uproar, hounds

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunt, savage), 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:pg2892:37:6
# text = As the hunt swept along the sides of the hill there arose a great outcry of hounds from a narrow place high on the slope and, over all that uproar there came the savage baying of Fionn’s own dogs.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
12	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	outcry	outcry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | the hunt |  |  | the sides of the hill; there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **arise** | past |  | a great outcry of hounds from a narrow place on the slope |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location outcry=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past |  | the savage |  | all uproar; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location savage=Theme |
| 4 | **bay** | gerund | the savage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Fionn's own dogs | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **outcry** |  |  | hounds from a narrow place on the slope |  |  |  |  | nom outcry «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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