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title: They knew only too well that the son of Uail was living, and they kn… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They knew only too well that the son of Uail was living, and they knew that their own sons would know no ease while that son lived; for they believed in those days that like breeds like, and that the son of Uail would be Uail with additions. Who acts: women, son, own sons, days. A sentence of «Irish
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 31

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They knew only too well that the son of Uail was living, and they knew that their own sons would know no ease while that son lived; for they believed in those days that like breeds like, and that the son of Uail would be Uail with additions.

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**Who acts:** women, son, own sons, days · **What happens:** know, live, believe, like, be · **To what, where:** ease, breeds, Uail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, son, own sons, days), 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:pg2892:18:31
# text = They knew only too well that the son of Uail was living, and they knew that their own sons would know no ease while that son lived; for they believed in those days that like breeds like, and that the son of Uail would be Uail with additions.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Uail	Uail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
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	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	breeds	breed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Uail	Uail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
49	Uail	Uail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	additions	addition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **live** | past · progressive | the son of Uail |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | would | women's own sons | no ease |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ease=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | past | that son |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **believe** | past | women *= woman* |  |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **like** | present | that days | breeds |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breed=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | would | the son of Uail | Uail |  |  |  | with additions | 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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