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title: That man from the Shi’ may come any minute, and if I catch one sound… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That man from the Shi’ may come any minute, and if I catch one sound of his music I am done for.” Who acts: man, I. 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 56

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That man from the Shi’ may come any minute, and if I catch one sound of his music I am done for.”

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**Who acts:** man, I · **What happens:** come, catch, do · **To what, where:** one sound, I

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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 (man, I), 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:pg2892:26:56
# text = That man from the Shi’ may come any minute, and if I catch one sound of his music I am done for.”
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | may | that man from the Shi ’ |  |  |  | minute |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | one sound of man's music |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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