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title: It was Samhain-tide, and the feast of Tara was being held, at which… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was Samhain-tide, and the feast of Tara was being held, at which all that was wise or skilful or well-born in Ireland were gathered together. Who acts: bade, Samhain tide. 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 4

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It was Samhain-tide, and the feast of Tara was being held, at which all that was wise or skilful or well-born in Ireland were gathered together.

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**Who acts:** bade, Samhain tide · **What happens:** be, hold, bear, gather · **To what, where:** Samhain tide, feast, Ireland, all

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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 (bade, Samhain tide), 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:pg2892:24:4
# text = It was Samhain-tide, and the feast of Tara was being held, at which all that was wise or skilful or well-born in Ireland were gathered together.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bade | Samhain tide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past · passive | Samhain tide *not said here* | the feast of Tara |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  | Ireland |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **gather** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  | together *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at which=Asset |

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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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