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title: Some broken soldier tramping home to his people will find it out; a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some broken soldier tramping home to his people will find it out; a herd seeking his strayed cattle or a band of travelling musicians will get the wind of it. Who acts: broken soldier, herd. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 35

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Some broken soldier tramping home to his people will find it out; a herd seeking his strayed cattle or a band of travelling musicians will get the wind of it.

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**Who acts:** broken soldier, herd · **What happens:** break, tramp, find out, seek, stray, get · **To what, where:** people, secret, strayed cattle, wind

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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 (broken soldier, herd), 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:pg2892:18:35
# text = Some broken soldier tramping home to his people will find it out; a herd seeking his strayed cattle or a band of travelling musicians will get the wind of it.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	tramping	tramp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
16	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	strayed	stray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tramp** | gerund | some broken soldier *not said here* |  | soldier's people |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to people=Destination |
| 3 | **find out** | future | some broken soldier | secret |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund | a herd *not said here* | soldier's strayed cattle or a band of travelling musicians |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme |
| 5 | **stray** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | future | a herd | the wind of secret |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus |
| 7 | **wind** |  |  | secret |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon 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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