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title: In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman who foll… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman who followed ancient ways, and he demanded admittance in order that he might preach and prove the new God, and exorcise and terrify and banish even the memory of the old one; for to a god grown old Time is as ruthless as to a beggarman grow
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 13

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In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman who followed ancient ways, and he demanded admittance in order that he might preach and prove the new God, and exorcise and terrify and banish even the memory of the old one; for to a god grown old Time is as ruthless as to a beggarman grown old.

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**Who acts:** person, gentleman, god · **What happens:** come, follow, demand, preach, prove, exorcise · **To what, where:** stronghold, ancient ways, admittance, order, new God, memory

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, gentleman, god), 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:pg2892:2:13
# text = In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman who followed ancient ways, and he demanded admittance in order that he might preach and prove the new God, and exorcise and terrify and banish even the memory of the old one; for to a god grown old Time is as ruthless as to a beggarman grown old.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	admittance	admittance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	preach	preach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	exorcise	exorcise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	terrify	terrify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	banish	banish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
52	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl:unmarked	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	as	as	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	ruthless	ruthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
58	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	61	case	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	fixed	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl	_	_
63	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | person |  |  | the stronghold of the gentleman | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stronghold=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the gentleman | ancient ways |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | person | admittance |  | order |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme admittance=Precondition |
| 4 | **preach** *speech: other* | might | person |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **prove** | infinitive | person *not said here* | the new God |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 6 | **exorcise** | infinitive | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **terrify** | infinitive | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **banish** | infinitive | person *not said here* | the memory of the old one |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 9 | **grow** | participle |  | a god *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | present | a god |  |  |  |  | as a beggarman; ruthless *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **grow** | participle |  | a beggarman *not said here* |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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