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title: A roomy ship under great press of sall was bearing on Ben Edair from… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A roomy ship under great press of sall was bearing on Ben Edair from the east. Who acts: roomy ship, sall. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11

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A roomy ship under great press of sall was bearing on Ben Edair from the east.

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**Who acts:** roomy ship, sall · **What happens:** bear, press · **To what, where:** Ben

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roomy ship, sall), 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:pg2892:48:11
# text = A roomy ship under great press of sall was bearing on Ben Edair from the east.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	roomy	roomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sall	sall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · progressive | a roomy ship under great press of sall |  |  | Ben |  | from the east | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **press** |  | sall |  |  |  |  |  | nom press «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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