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title: But no word was uttered, no movement made except the movement and th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But no word was uttered, no movement made except the movement and the utterance of the Ard-Ri’. Who acts: movement. 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 41

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But no word was uttered, no movement made except the movement and the utterance of the Ard-Ri’.

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**Who acts:** movement · **What happens:** utter, make · **To what, where:** word, Ard Ri

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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 (movement), 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:pg2892:24:41
# text = But no word was uttered, no movement made except the movement and the utterance of the Ard-Ri’.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	except	except	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Ard	Ard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Ri	Ri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | no word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | no movement |  |  |  |  | except the movement and the utterance of the Ard Ri | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **utter** |  |  | the Ard Ri |  |  |  |  | nom utterance «communication 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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