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title: He went forward in his light bark, and at some moment found that he… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went forward in his light bark, and at some moment found that he had parted from those seas and was adrift on vaster and more turbulent billows. Who acts: He. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 1

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He went forward in his light bark, and at some moment found that he had parted from those seas and was adrift on vaster and more turbulent billows.

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**Who acts:** He · **What happens:** go, find, part, be · **To what, where:** light bark, vaster billows · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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:pg2892:71:1
# text = He went forward in his light bark, and at some moment found that he had parted from those seas and was adrift on vaster and more turbulent billows.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	adrift	adrift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	vaster	vast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
29	billows	billow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | He |  |  | his light bark |  | forward *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bark=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | He *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **part** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  | from that seas | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from sea=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | he *not said here* |  |  | vaster billows |  | adrift *property* | tree rules |

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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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