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title: Many a sharp cry the hound gave in that journey, many a mild lament. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a sharp cry the hound gave in that journey, many a mild lament. Who acts: hound, many. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2

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Many a sharp cry the hound gave in that journey, many a mild lament.

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**Who acts:** hound, many · **What happens:** give, lament · **To what, where:** sharp cry, journey

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hound, many), 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:pg2892:30:2
# text = Many a sharp cry the hound gave in that journey, many a mild lament.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lament	lament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the hound | a sharp cry and a mild lament *not said here* |  | that journey |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 2 | **lament** |  | many |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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