--- title: All the things that he should have known as by nature: the look, the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: All the things that he should have known as by nature: the look, the movement, the feeling of crowds; the shouldering and intercourse of man with man; the clustering of houses and how people bore themselves in and about them; the movement of armed men, and the homecoming look of wounds; tales of bir --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/19/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/19/) / 8 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 8 All the things that he should have known as by nature: the look, the movement, the feeling of crowds; the shouldering and intercourse of man with man; the clustering of houses and how people bore themselves in and about them; the movement of armed men, and the homecoming look of wounds; tales of births, and marriages and deaths; the chase with its multitudes of men and dogs; all the noise, the dust, the excitement of mere living. **Who acts:** houses, people, births · **What happens:** know, cluster, bear, move, tell, excite · **To what, where:** things, people, armed men, mere living · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (houses, people, births), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:19:8 # text = All the things that he should have known as by nature: the look, the movement, the feeling of crowds; the shouldering and intercourse of man with man; the clustering of houses and how people bore themselves in and about them; the movement of armed men, and the homecoming look of wounds; tales of births, and marriages and deaths; the chase with its multitudes of men and dogs; all the noise, the dust, the excitement of mere living. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux _ _ 8 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 11 case _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 shouldering shouldering NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 intercourse intercourse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 clustering cluster VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 34 obl _ _ 36 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 41 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 obj _ _ 42 in in ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 about about ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 homecoming homecoming NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ; ; PUNCT : _ 60 punct _ _ 60 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 births birth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 marriages marriage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 conj _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 67 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 ; ; PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 71 with with ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 73 nmod:poss _ _ 73 multitudes multitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 nmod _ _ 74 of of ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 75 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 73 nmod _ _ 76 and and CCONJ CC _ 77 cc _ _ 77 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 75 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 78 ; ; PUNCT : _ 81 punct _ _ 79 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 81 det:predet _ _ 80 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 81 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 82 , , PUNCT , _ 84 punct _ _ 83 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 84 det _ _ 84 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 81 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 85 , , PUNCT , _ 87 punct _ _ 86 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 87 det _ _ 87 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 81 conj _ _ 88 of of ADP IN _ 90 case _ _ 89 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 90 amod _ _ 90 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 87 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 91 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | should · perfect · passive | | all things the shouldering and intercourse of man with man and the houses | | | | as nature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as nature=Attribute | | 2 | **cluster** | gerund | the houses *not said here* | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bear** | past | people | people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 4 | **move** | | | armed men | | | | | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **tell** | | births | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **excite** | | | mere living | | | | | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/19/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/19/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/19/)