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title: The camp was chosen, and each squadron and company of the host were… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The camp was chosen, and each squadron and company of the host were lodged into an appropriate place, so there was no overcrowding and no halt or interruption of the march; for where a company halted that was its place of rest, and in that place it hindered no other company, and was at its own ease.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9

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The camp was chosen, and each squadron and company of the host were lodged into an appropriate place, so there was no overcrowding and no halt or interruption of the march; for where a company halted that was its place of rest, and in that place it hindered no other company, and was at its own ease.

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**Who acts:** company, that, camp · **What happens:** choose, lodge, be, overcrowd, halt, hinder · **To what, where:** camp, squadron, appropriate place, halt, place, other company

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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 (company, that, camp), 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:pg2892:48:9
# text = The camp was chosen, and each squadron and company of the host were lodged into an appropriate place, so there was no overcrowding and no halt or interruption of the march; for where a company halted that was its place of rest, and in that place it hindered no other company, and was at its own ease.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	overcrowding	overcrowd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	halt	halt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	interruption	interruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	halted	halt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	ccomp	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
53	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	55	det	_	_
54	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
61	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past · passive |  | the camp |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lodge** | past · passive |  | each squadron and company of the host |  | a appropriate place |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 3 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **overcrowd** | gerund |  | no halt or interruption of the march |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **halt** | past | a company |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** | past | that | camp's place |  |  |  | of rest | tree rules |
| 7 | **hinder** | past | camp | no other company |  | that place |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer company=Eventuality |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  | camp's own ease |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **interrupt** |  |  | the march |  |  |  |  | nom interruption «act 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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