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title: And the enforced seclusion wrought on the minds of the servants, whi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the enforced seclusion wrought on the minds of the servants, while the cessation of all work banded them together in small groups that whispered and discussed and disputed. Who acts: enforced seclusion, small groups. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its depen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 15

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And the enforced seclusion wrought on the minds of the servants, while the cessation of all work banded them together in small groups that whispered and discussed and disputed.

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**Who acts:** enforced seclusion, small groups · **What happens:** enforce, wrought, band, whisper, discuss, dispute · **To what, where:** enforced seclusion, minds, small groups, servants, work

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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 (enforced seclusion, small groups), 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:pg2892:3:15
# text = And the enforced seclusion wrought on the minds of the servants, while the cessation of all work banded them together in small groups that whispered and discussed and disputed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	enforced	enforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	seclusion	seclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
5	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cessation	cessation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	banded	band	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enforce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wrought** | participle |  | the enforced seclusion and the cessation of all work *not said here* |  | the minds of the servants |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **band** | past | the enforced seclusion and the cessation of all work | minds *= mind* |  | small groups |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | small groups |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past | small groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **dispute** | past | small groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mind** |  |  | the servants |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **cease** |  |  | all work |  |  |  |  | nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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