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title: There were others: wild Connachtmen all, as untameable, as unaccount… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were others: wild Connachtmen all, as untameable, as unaccountable as their own wonderful countryside. Who acts: others. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 10

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There were others: wild Connachtmen all, as untameable, as unaccountable as their own wonderful countryside.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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:pg2892:16:10
# text = There were others: wild Connachtmen all, as untameable, as unaccountable as their own wonderful countryside.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Connachtmen	Connachtmen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	untameable	untameable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	unaccountable	unaccountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | others  wild Connachtmen |  |  | there |  | all *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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