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title: The nobles of Ireland with their winsome consorts, the learned and a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobles of Ireland with their winsome consorts, the learned and artistic professions represented by the pick of their time were in place. Who acts: nobles. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 20

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The nobles of Ireland with their winsome consorts, the learned and artistic professions represented by the pick of their time were in place.

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**Who acts:** nobles · **What happens:** learn, represent, be, pick · **To what, where:** learned professions, place, time

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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 (nobles), 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:pg2892:24:20
# text = The nobles of Ireland with their winsome consorts, the learned and artistic professions represented by the pick of their time were in place.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	winsome	winsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	consorts	consort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	professions	profession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **represent** | participle |  | the learned professions *not said here* |  |  |  | by the pick of nobles's time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the nobles of Ireland with nobles's winsome consorts and the learned professions |  |  | place |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pick** |  |  | nobles's time |  |  |  |  | nom pick «cognition transitive»: of=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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