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title: “‘Be quiet, King of the River,’ said the fisherman, ‘give in to Doom… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Be quiet, King of the River,’ said the fisherman, ‘give in to Doom,’ said he. Who acts: fisherman. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 8

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“‘Be quiet, King of the River,’ said the fisherman, ‘give in to Doom,’ said he.

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**Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** be, say, give in · **To what, where:** fisherman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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:pg2892:12:8
# text = “‘Be quiet, King of the River,’ said the fisherman, ‘give in to Doom,’ said he.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | King of the River *obl*; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the fisherman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give in** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to Doom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to doom=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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