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title: Or, perhaps, he too had a band, although the record does not say so;… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Or, perhaps, he too had a band, although the record does not say so; but kill them he did, and they died that way. Who acts: youngster, record, poets. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16

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Or, perhaps, he too had a band, although the record does not say so; but kill them he did, and they died that way.

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**Who acts:** youngster, record, poets · **What happens:** have, not say, kill, do, die · **To what, where:** band, poets, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngster, record, poets), 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:pg2892:19:16
# text = Or, perhaps, he too had a band, although the record does not say so; but kill them he did, and they died that way.
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | youngster | a band |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the record |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | infinitive | the record *not said here* | poets *= poet* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | youngster |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** | past | poets *= poet* | that way |  |  |  |  | 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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