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title: That is, her brother was Lugh of the Long Hand himself, and with a g… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That is, her brother was Lugh of the Long Hand himself, and with a god, and such a god, for brother we may marvel that she could have been in dread of Morna or his sons, or of any one. Who acts: That, we, mother. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tre
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11

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That is, her brother was Lugh of the Long Hand himself, and with a god, and such a god, for brother we may marvel that she could have been in dread of Morna or his sons, or of any one.

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**Who acts:** That, we, mother · **What happens:** be, marvel · **To what, where:** Lugh, dread

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, we, mother), 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:pg2892:14:11
# text = That is, her brother was Lugh of the Long Hand himself, and with a god, and such a god, for brother we may marvel that she could have been in dread of Morna or his sons, or of any one.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Lugh	Lugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Hand	Hand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	marvel	marvel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | Lugh |  |  |  | of the Long Hand  Lugh | tree rules |
| 2 | **marvel** | may | we |  |  |  |  | for brother | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | could · perfect | mother |  |  | dread or any one |  | of Morna or Lugh's sons | 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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