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title: The sons of Morna came, but there were only two grim women living in… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sons of Morna came, but there were only two grim women living in a lonely hut to greet them. Who acts: sons, two grim women. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 42

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The sons of Morna came, but there were only two grim women living in a lonely hut to greet them.

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**Who acts:** sons, two grim women · **What happens:** come, be, live, greet · **To what, where:** lonely hut, women

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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 (sons, two grim women), 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:pg2892:18:42
# text = The sons of Morna came, but there were only two grim women living in a lonely hut to greet them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
14	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 sons of Morna |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | two grim women |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | two grim women *not said here* |  |  | a lonely hut |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
| 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | two grim women *not said here* |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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