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title: And of how at last, when the time came to quell him, nothing less th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And of how at last, when the time came to quell him, nothing less than the whole might of Ireland was sufficient for that great downfall. Who acts: time, nothing. 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 17

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And of how at last, when the time came to quell him, nothing less than the whole might of Ireland was sufficient for that great downfall.

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**Who acts:** time, nothing · **What happens:** come, quell, be · **To what, where:** feat

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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 (time, nothing), 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:pg2892:16:17
# text = And of how at last, when the time came to quell him, nothing less than the whole might of Ireland was sufficient for that great downfall.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	quell	quell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
16	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	downfall	downfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **quell** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* | feat |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | might | nothing |  |  |  |  | of Ireland; for that great downfall; sufficient *property* | 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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