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title: These two set out then for Munster, and as the sun was setting they… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These two set out then for Munster, and as the sun was setting they reached Slieve Luachra and prepared to spend the night there. Who acts: sun, way. 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 18

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These two set out then for Munster, and as the sun was setting they reached Slieve Luachra and prepared to spend the night there.

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**Who acts:** sun, way · **What happens:** set out, set, reach, spend · **To what, where:** These, Slieve

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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 (sun, way), 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:pg2892:50:18
# text = These two set out then for Munster, and as the sun was setting they reached Slieve Luachra and prepared to spend the night there.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Munster	Munster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	Luachra	Luachra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle · passive |  | These |  |  | then | for Munster | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | past | way | Slieve |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent slieve=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** | to-infinitive | way *not said here* |  |  | there | night |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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