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title: “Tell us that,” said Fionn turning to Oisi’n [pronounced Usheen] — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tell us that,” said Fionn turning to Oisi’n [pronounced Usheen] Who acts: Fionn. 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 38

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“Tell us that,” said Fionn turning to Oisi’n \[pronounced Usheen\]

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**Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** tell, say, turn, pronounce · **To what, where:** us, Oisi’n, Usheen · **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 (Fionn), 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:pg2892:21:38
# text = “Tell us that,” said Fionn turning to Oisi’n [pronounced Usheen]
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Oisi’n	Oisi'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	Usheen	Usheen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | Fionn *not said here* |  | Oisi’n |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to oisi'n=Result |
| 4 | **pronounce** | past |  | Usheen |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent usheen=Result |

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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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