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title: “Against whom do you desire protection?” — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Against whom do you desire protection?” Who acts: you. 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 20

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“Against whom do you desire protection?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** desire · **To what, where:** protection

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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 (you), 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:pg2892:34:20
# text = “Against whom do you desire protection?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Against	against	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | protection |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot protection=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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