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title: There was Garra Duv mac Morna, and savage Art Og, who cared as littl… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was Garra Duv mac Morna, and savage Art Og, who cared as little for their own skins as they did for the next man’s, and Garra must have been rough indeed to have earned in that clan the name of the Rough mac Morna. Who acts: Garra Duv mac, Art Og, men, Garra. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 9

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There was Garra Duv mac Morna, and savage Art Og, who cared as little for their own skins as they did for the next man’s, and Garra must have been rough indeed to have earned in that clan the name of the Rough mac Morna.

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**Who acts:** Garra Duv mac, Art Og, men, Garra · **What happens:** be, care, do, earn, name · **To what, where:** clan, Rough mac

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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 (Garra Duv mac, Art Og, men, Garra), 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:pg2892:16:9
# text = There was Garra Duv mac Morna, and savage Art Og, who cared as little for their own skins as they did for the next man’s, and Garra must have been rough indeed to have earned in that clan the name of the Rough mac Morna.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Garra	Garra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	Garra	Garra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
36	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	Rough	Rough	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	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 | Garra Duv mac |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **care** | past | Art Og |  |  |  |  | as little; for men's own skins | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for skin=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | for the next man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | must · perfect | Garra |  |  |  |  | indeed, rough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **earn** | to-infinitive · perfect | Garra *not said here* |  |  | that clan |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | the Rough mac |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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