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title: Life continued for him in a round of timeless time, wherein days and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Life continued for him in a round of timeless time, wherein days and nights were uneventful and were yet filled with interest. Who acts: Life, days. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 1

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Life continued for him in a round of timeless time, wherein days and nights were uneventful and were yet filled with interest.

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**Who acts:** Life, days · **What happens:** continue, be, fill · **To what, where:** round

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life, days), 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:pg2892:23:1
# text = Life continued for him in a round of timeless time, wherein days and nights were uneventful and were yet filled with interest.
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	timeless	timeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	uneventful	uneventful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Life |  |  | a round of timeless time |  | for him *= he* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | days and nights |  |  |  |  | uneventful, wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive | days and nights *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | with interest | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with interest=Instrument |

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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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