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title: It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness w… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being. Who acts: one, mind. A sentence of «Irish
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 4

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It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.

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**Who acts:** one, mind · **What happens:** overwhelm, merge, transfer, dissipate, sleep, stand · **To what, where:** mind, space, consciousness, loneliness, moon, own

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, mind), 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:pg2892:27:4
# text = It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dissipated	dissipate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	obj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obl	_	_
33	else	else	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	44	cc	_	_
42	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
45	inwards	inwards	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl	_	_
49	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overwhelm** | could · passive |  | mind |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **merge** | participle |  |  |  | space |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **transfer** | would · passive |  | consciousness |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **dissipate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sleep** | might | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stand** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fear** | present | the mind | loneliness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **escape** | future | the mind *not said here* |  |  | the moon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to moon=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **drive** | infinitive · passive | the mind *not said here* |  |  | mind's own |  | inwards *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» |

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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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