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title: There are people who do not like dogs a bit--they are usually women-… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There are people who do not like dogs a bit--they are usually women--but in this story there is a man who did not like dogs. Who acts: people, story, man. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1

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There are people who do not like dogs a bit--they are usually women--but in this story there is a man who did not like dogs.

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**Who acts:** people, story, man · **What happens:** be, not like · **To what, where:** dogs, women, story

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, story, man), 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:pg2892:28:1
# text = There are people who do not like dogs a bit--they are usually women--but in this story there is a man who did not like dogs.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | people | dogs |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | people | women |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | this story *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | a man | dogs |  | this story |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=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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