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title: But he saw that not even beloved Caelte understood the meaning of th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he saw that not even beloved Caelte understood the meaning of that, and he knew sadly and yet proudly that what he meant could not be explained by any one and could not be comprehended by any one. Who acts: lord, Caelte, one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23

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But he saw that not even beloved Caelte understood the meaning of that, and he knew sadly and yet proudly that what he meant could not be explained by any one and could not be comprehended by any one.

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**Who acts:** lord, Caelte, one · **What happens:** see, not belov, understand, know, mean, not explain · **To what, where:** meaning, that · **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 (lord, Caelte, one), 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:pg2892:35:23
# text = But he saw that not even beloved Caelte understood the meaning of that, and he knew sadly and yet proudly that what he meant could not be explained by any one and could not be comprehended by any one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
8	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:outer	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	comprehended	comprehend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **belov** | participle | Caelte *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | past | Caelte | the meaning of that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | past | lord |  |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **mean** | past | lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* | could · passive | any one |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **comprehend** | could · passive | any one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **mean** |  |  | that |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «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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