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title: “Be at peace all of you,” he said, “for hunger has a whip, and he wi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Be at peace all of you,” he said, “for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the stranger away in the night.” Who acts: master. 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 28

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“Be at peace all of you,” he said, “for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the stranger away in the night.”

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** be, say, have, drive away · **To what, where:** peace, whip, stranger · **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 (master), 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:pg2892:3:28
# text = “Be at peace all of you,” he said, “for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the stranger away in the night.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | peace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | a whip |  |  |  | for hunger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient |
| 4 | **drive away** *in a quote* | future | master | the stranger |  |  | night | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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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