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title: “Even if I have not eaten the Salmon of Knowledge I have some small… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Even if I have not eaten the Salmon of Knowledge I have some small science of my own.” Who acts: boy, Salmon. 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 53

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“Even if I have not eaten the Salmon of Knowledge I have some small science of my own.”

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**Who acts:** boy, Salmon · **What happens:** not eat, have · **To what, where:** small science

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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 (boy, Salmon), 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:pg2892:23:53
# text = “Even if I have not eaten the Salmon of Knowledge I have some small science of my own.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the boy *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Salmon of Knowledge | some small science of my own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=Patient |

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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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