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title: “If Uail the son of Baiscne has a son,” said the king, “you would su… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If Uail the son of Baiscne has a son,” said the king, “you would surely be that son.” Who acts: Uail, king, you. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 31

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“If Uail the son of Baiscne has a son,” said the king, “you would surely be that son.”

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**Who acts:** Uail, king, you · **What happens:** have, say, be · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uail, king, you), 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:pg2892:21:31
# text = “If Uail the son of Baiscne has a son,” said the king, “you would surely be that son.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	Uail	Uail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Baiscne	Baiscne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Uail | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king and that son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | you | that son |  |  |  | surely *property* | 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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