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title: When they reached Leinster the feast of Moy Life’ was being held, an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached Leinster the feast of Moy Life’ was being held, and they pushed on by forced marches and long stages so as to be in time, and thus they came to the Moy of Cell Camain, and they mixed with the crowd that were going to the feast. Who acts: heart, crowd. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tal
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 3

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When they reached Leinster the feast of Moy Life’ was being held, and they pushed on by forced marches and long stages so as to be in time, and thus they came to the Moy of Cell Camain, and they mixed with the crowd that were going to the feast.

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**Who acts:** heart, crowd · **What happens:** reach, hold, push on, force, be, come · **To what, where:** feast, Leinster, Moy

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, crowd), 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:pg2892:85:3
# text = When they reached Leinster the feast of Moy Life’ was being held, and they pushed on by forced marches and long stages so as to be in time, and thus they came to the Moy of Cell Camain, and they mixed with the crowd that were going to the feast.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
4	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Moy	Moy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	marches	march	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stages	stage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Moy	Moy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Cell	Cell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	Camain	Camain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	mixed	mix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | heart | the feast | Leinster |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent leinster=Beneficiary feast=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the feast *not said here* |  |  |  | of Moy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **push on** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | by forced marches and long stages | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by march=Trajectory |
| 4 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  | in time |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | past | heart |  |  | the Moy of Cell |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to moy=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **mix** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | with the crowd | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with crowd=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **go** | past · progressive | the crowd |  |  | the feast |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial\_Location |

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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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