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title: He did not listen to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of ma… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not listen to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of magicians, for all of these were in his wife, and something that was beyond these was in her also. Who acts: head, poets. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 71

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He did not listen to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of magicians, for all of these were in his wife, and something that was beyond these was in her also.

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**Who acts:** head, poets · **What happens:** not listen, be, sing, say · **To what, where:** magicians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (head, poets), 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:pg2892:34:71
# text = He did not listen to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of magicians, for all of these were in his wife, and something that was beyond these was in her also.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sayings	saying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	obl	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | past · do-support | head |  |  |  |  | to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of magicians; for all | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in head's wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wife=Location |
| 3 | **sing** |  | poets or the curious sayings of magicians |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **say** |  |  | magicians |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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