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title: “A man of knowledge foretold that I should catch the Salmon of Knowl… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “A man of knowledge foretold that I should catch the Salmon of Knowledge in the Boyne Water.” Who acts: man, Finegas. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 25

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“A man of knowledge foretold that I should catch the Salmon of Knowledge in the Boyne Water.”

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**Who acts:** man, Finegas · **What happens:** foretell, catch · **To what, where:** Salmon, Boyne Water

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Finegas), 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:pg2892:22:25
# text = “A man of knowledge foretold that I should catch the Salmon of Knowledge in the Boyne Water.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Boyne	Boyne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foretell** *in a quote* | participle | a man of knowledge |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** *in a quote* | should | Finegas | the Salmon of Knowledge |  | the Boyne Water |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=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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