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title: If you should ever go to Ireland, you may be shown the place where S… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: If you should ever go to Ireland, you may be shown the place where Sir Walter planted the few po-ta-toes which he carried over from America. Who acts: you, Sir. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 40

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If you should ever go to Ireland, you may be shown the place where Sir Walter planted the few po-ta-toes which he carried over from America.

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**Who acts:** you, Sir · **What happens:** go, show, plant, carry over · **To what, where:** Ireland, you, few ta toes, America

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Sir), 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:pg18442:20:40
# text = If you should ever go to Ireland, you may be shown the place where Sir Walter planted the few po-ta-toes which he carried over from America.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
21	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	over	over	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | you |  |  | Ireland | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **show** | may · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient place=Topic |
| 3 | **plant** | past | Sir | the few ta toes |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 4 | **carry over** | past | Sir | the few ta toes |  | America |  | over *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent which=Theme from america=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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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