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title: But in his thousand thoughts he yet remembered the Salmon of Knowled… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But in his thousand thoughts he yet remembered the Salmon of Knowledge as eagerly as his master did. Who acts: poet, master. 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 37

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But in his thousand thoughts he yet remembered the Salmon of Knowledge as eagerly as his master did.

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**Who acts:** poet, master · **What happens:** remember, do, think · **To what, where:** Salmon, thousand thoughts

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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 (poet, master), 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:pg2892:22:37
# text = But in his thousand thoughts he yet remembered the Salmon of Knowledge as eagerly as his master did.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | poet | the Salmon of Knowledge |  | poet's thousand thoughts | yet | eagerly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | poet's master |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** |  | poet |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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