--- title: News was brought to Tlr na n-Og of the marriage of Iollan and Tuiren… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: News was brought to Tlr na n-Og of the marriage of Iollan and Tuiren, and when Uct Dealv heard that news her heart ceased to beat for a moment, and she closed her eyes. Who acts: Tlr, Uct, news. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tlr, Uct, news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:29:23 # text = News was brought to Tlr na n-Og of the marriage of Iollan and Tuiren, and when Uct Dealv heard that news her heart ceased to beat for a moment, and she closed her eyes. 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Tlr Tlr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl:agent _ _ 6 na na ADV GW Typo=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 7 n n X GW _ 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - X GW _ 7 goeswith _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Og Og PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 goeswith _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Iollan Iollan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Tuiren Tuiren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 Uct Uct PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 Dealv Dealv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 ceased cease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past · passive | Tlr | News | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | Uct | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **cease** | past | news Uct's heart | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **beat** | to-infinitive | news Uct's heart *not said here* | | | | moment | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **close** | past | Uct | Uct's eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 6 | **marry** | | | Iollan and Tuiren | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/29/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/29/24/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/29/)