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title: In another moment, to the undying shame of every person present, he… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In another moment, to the undying shame of every person present, he would have been compelled to lift his own challenge and declare himself the champion of Tara for that night, but the shame that was on the faces of his people would remain in the heart of their king. Who acts: that, shame, embarrass
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 16

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In another moment, to the undying shame of every person present, he would have been compelled to lift his own challenge and declare himself the champion of Tara for that night, but the shame that was on the faces of his people would remain in the heart of their king.

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**Who acts:** that, shame, embarrassment · **What happens:** compel, lift, declare, be, remain, shame · **To what, where:** embarrassment, own challenge, faces, heart, person present

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, shame, embarrassment), 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:pg2892:25:16
# text = In another moment, to the undying shame of every person present, he would have been compelled to lift his own challenge and declare himself the champion of Tara for that night, but the shame that was on the faces of his people would remain in the heart of their king.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	undying	undying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compel** | would · perfect · passive |  | embarrassment |  |  | moment |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive |  | embarrassment's own challenge |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | embarrassment |  |  | night |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme champion=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  | the faces |  | of embarrassment's people | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain** | would | the shame |  |  | the heart of hearts's king |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location |
| 6 | **shame** |  |  | every person present |  |  |  |  | nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **challenge** |  | embarrassment |  |  |  |  |  | nom challenge «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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