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title: However it may be, when Uall died Muirne got married again to the Ki… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: However it may be, when Uall died Muirne got married again to the King of Kerry. Who acts: Uall. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 13

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However it may be, when Uall died Muirne got married again to the King of Kerry.

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**Who acts:** Uall · **What happens:** be, die, marry · **To what, where:** Muirne

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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 (Uall), 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:pg2892:14:13
# text = However it may be, when Uall died Muirne got married again to the King of Kerry.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	Uall	Uall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Muirne	Muirne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Kerry	Kerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | Uall |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | past · passive |  | Muirne |  |  | again | to the King of Kerry | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to king=Co-Patient |

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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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