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title: Being quite re-established he undertook the conversion of the master… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Being quite re-established he undertook the conversion of the master of the house, and the siege he laid against that notable intelligence was long spoken of among those who are interested in such things. Who acts: master. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dep
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 34

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Being quite re-established he undertook the conversion of the master of the house, and the siege he laid against that notable intelligence was long spoken of among those who are interested in such things.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** re-establish, undertake, lay, speak, be, convert · **To what, where:** conversion, siege, notable intelligence, such things, master · **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:pg2892:3:34
# text = Being quite re-established he undertook the conversion of the master of the house, and the siege he laid against that notable intelligence was long spoken of among those who are interested in such things.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux:pass	_	_
2	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	re-established	re-establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conversion	conversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-establish** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **undertake** | past | master | the conversion of the master of the house |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversion=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lay** | past | master | the siege *not said here* |  | that notable intelligence |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent siege=Theme against intelligence=Destination |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the siege |  |  |  | of those | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  | such things |  | interested *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **convert** |  |  | the master of the house |  |  |  |  | nom conversion «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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