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title: Still, the hound that can wait will catch a hare at last, and even M… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, the hound that can wait will catch a hare at last, and even Manana’nn sleeps. Who acts: hound, Manana’nn. 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 8

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Still, the hound that can wait will catch a hare at last, and even Manana’nn sleeps.

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**Who acts:** hound, Manana’nn · **What happens:** wait, catch, sleep · **To what, where:** hare, last

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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 (hound, Manana’nn), 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:pg2892:14:8
# text = Still, the hound that can wait will catch a hare at last, and even Manana’nn sleeps.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	Manana’nn	Manana'nn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | can | the hound |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | future | the hound | a hare |  | last | still |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hare=Theme at last=Asset |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | Manana’nn |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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