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title: And Uct Dealv would reply: “Yes, that is my mortal, my lover, my pul… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Uct Dealv would reply: “Yes, that is my mortal, my lover, my pulse, and my one treasure.” Who acts: Uct, that, my. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 10

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And Uct Dealv would reply: “Yes, that is my mortal, my lover, my pulse, and my one treasure.”

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**Who acts:** Uct, that, my · **What happens:** reply, be, pulse, treasure · **To what, where:** one treasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uct, that, my), 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:pg2892:29:10
# text = And Uct Dealv would reply: “Yes, that is my mortal, my lover, my pulse, and my one treasure.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Uct	Uct	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	pulse	pulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | would | Uct | my one treasure |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | mortal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pulse** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **treasure** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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