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title: Still this band of young bards would have been of infinite interest… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Still this band of young bards would have been of infinite interest to Fionn, not on account of what they had learned, but because of what they knew. Who acts: band, guardians. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 7

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Still this band of young bards would have been of infinite interest to Fionn, not on account of what they had learned, but because of what they knew.

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**Who acts:** band, guardians · **What happens:** be, learn, know, account · **To what, where:** Fionn, infinite interest

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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 (band, guardians), 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:pg2892:19:7
# text = Still this band of young bards would have been of infinite interest to Fionn, not on account of what they had learned, but because of what they knew.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	conj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | this band of young bards |  | Fionn |  |  | of infinite interest and account of infinite interest and account of infinite interest | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | past · perfect | guardians *= guardian* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | past | guardians *= guardian* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | infinite interest and account of infinite interest and account |  |  |  |  | nom account «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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