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title: “However that may be, master, I have given Fionn’s message, and here… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “However that may be, master, I have given Fionn’s message, and here at my heel is the dog. Who acts: that, messenger. 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 40

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“However that may be, master, I have given Fionn’s message, and here at my heel is the dog.

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**Who acts:** that, messenger · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** master, message, dog

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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 (that, messenger), 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:pg2892:30:40
# text = “However that may be, master, I have given Fionn’s message, and here at my heel is the dog.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	However	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | may | that | master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the messenger *= messenger* | Fionn's message |  | here |  | however *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the dog |  |  |  |  | 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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