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title: All men are masters when one is young, and Fionn would have found kn… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All men are masters when one is young, and Fionn would have found knowledge here also. Who acts: men, one, masters. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 6

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All men are masters when one is young, and Fionn would have found knowledge here also.

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**Who acts:** men, one, masters · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** masters, Fionn

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, one, masters), 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:pg2892:20:6
# text = All men are masters when one is young, and Fionn would have found knowledge here also.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
15	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | all men | masters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | would · perfect · passive | masters *not said here* | Fionn |  | here |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme knowledge=Attribute |

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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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