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title: “Life and health, my good master, from Fionn, the son of Uail, the s… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Life and health, my good master, from Fionn, the son of Uail, the son of Baiscne,” said she to Fergus. Who acts: Life. 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 33

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“Life and health, my good master, from Fionn, the son of Uail, the son of Baiscne,” said she to Fergus.

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**Who acts:** Life · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Fergus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Life), 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:pg2892:30:33
# text = “Life and health, my good master, from Fionn, the son of Uail, the son of Baiscne,” said she to Fergus.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Uail	Uail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Baiscne	Baiscne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Life and health and my good master |  | Fergus |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fergus=Recipient |

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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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