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title: Here a gay band went carrying rich treasure to decorate the pavilion… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here a gay band went carrying rich treasure to decorate the pavilion of a Munster lord. Who acts: gay band. 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 8

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Here a gay band went carrying rich treasure to decorate the pavilion of a Munster lord.

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**Who acts:** gay band · **What happens:** go, carry, decorate · **To what, where:** rich treasure, pavilion

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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 (gay band), 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:pg2892:24:8
# text = Here a gay band went carrying rich treasure to decorate the pavilion of a Munster lord.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	decorate	decorate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Munster	munster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | a gay band |  |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | a gay band *not said here* | rich treasure |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **decorate** | to-infinitive | a gay band *not said here* | the pavilion of a Munster lord |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pavilion=Destination |

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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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