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title: Other than himself no person was abroad, for on the night of the Fea… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Other than himself no person was abroad, for on the night of the Feast of Samhain none but a madman would quit the shelter of a house even if it were on fire; for whatever disasters might be within a house would be as nothing to the calamities without it. Who acts: person, madman, disasters. A sente
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 2

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Other than himself no person was abroad, for on the night of the Feast of Samhain none but a madman would quit the shelter of a house even if it were on fire; for whatever disasters might be within a house would be as nothing to the calamities without it.

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**Who acts:** person, madman, disasters · **What happens:** be, quit · **To what, where:** shelter, fire

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, madman, disasters), 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:pg2892:26:2
# text = Other than himself no person was abroad, for on the night of the Feast of Samhain none but a madman would quit the shelter of a house even if it were on fire; for whatever disasters might be within a house would be as nothing to the calamities without it.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	15	nmod	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	madman	madman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	quit	quit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	obl	_	_
38	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
41	within	within	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	calamities	calamity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	without	without	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **quit** | would | a madman | the shelter of a house |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Source |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | madman |  |  | fire |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | might |  |  |  |  |  | within a house | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | disasters |  |  |  |  | as nothing; for whatever; to the calamities without madman | tree rules |

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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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