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title: He comes out of the Shi’ playing sweet, low music on a timpan and a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He comes out of the Shi’ playing sweet, low music on a timpan and a pipe, and all who hear this music fall asleep.” Who acts: Fionn, all, music. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 31

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He comes out of the Shi’ playing sweet, low music on a timpan and a pipe, and all who hear this music fall asleep.”

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**Who acts:** Fionn, all, music · **What happens:** come out, play, hear, fall · **To what, where:** Shi, sweet low music, timpan, music

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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 (Fionn, all, music), 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:pg2892:26:31
# text = He comes out of the Shi’ playing sweet, low music on a timpan and a pipe, and all who hear this music fall asleep.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	timpan	timpan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nmod	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | Fionn | the Shi |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shi=Result |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | Fionn *not said here* | sweet low music |  | a timpan and a pipe |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | present | all | this music |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | this music *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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