--- title: On such a journey all people spoke together, for all were friends, a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: On such a journey all people spoke together, for all were friends, and no person regarded the weapon in another man’s hand other than as an implement to poke a reluctant cow with, or to pacify with loud wallops some hoof-proud colt. Who acts: people, person, loud. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter XI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/) / 12 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 12 On such a journey all people spoke together, for all were friends, and no person regarded the weapon in another man’s hand other than as an implement to poke a reluctant cow with, or to pacify with loud wallops some hoof-proud colt. **Who acts:** people, person, loud · **What happens:** speak, be, regard, poke, pacify, wallop · **To what, where:** journey, weapon, hand, reluctant cow, proud colt · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, person, loud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:24:12 # text = On such a journey all people spoke together, for all were friends, and no person regarded the weapon in another man’s hand other than as an implement to poke a reluctant cow with, or to pacify with loud wallops some hoof-proud colt. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 4 det:predet _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 regarded regard VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 weapon weapon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 implement implement NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 poke poke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 reluctant reluctant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 with with SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 pacify pacify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 41 with with SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 nsubj _ _ 43 wallops wallop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 48 det _ _ 45 hoof hoof NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 colt colt NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | all people | | | such journey | | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | for all friends | tree rules | | 3 | **regard** | past | no person | the weapon | | another man's hand | | other *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | | 4 | **poke** | to-infinitive | no person *not said here* | a reluctant cow | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent cow=Instrument | | 5 | **pacify** | to-infinitive | no person *not said here* | a reluctant cow *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **wallop** | present | loud | some proud colt | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/)