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title: Indeed, Fionn loved Saeve as he had not loved a woman before and wou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, Fionn loved Saeve as he had not loved a woman before and would never love one again. Who acts: Fionn, Saeve. 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 56

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Indeed, Fionn loved Saeve as he had not loved a woman before and would never love one again.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, Saeve · **What happens:** love, not love · **To what, where:** Saeve, woman, one

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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 (Fionn, Saeve), 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:pg2892:34:56
# text = Indeed, Fionn loved Saeve as he had not loved a woman before and would never love one again.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Fionn | Saeve |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saeve=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **love** | past · perfect | Saeve | a woman |  |  |  | before *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **love** | would | Saeve *not said here* | one |  |  | again |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |

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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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