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title: And with that he ran, as he had only once before run, and the men wh… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And with that he ran, as he had only once before run, and the men who were nigh to him went racing as they would not have run for their lives. Who acts: Nor, men. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 14

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And with that he ran, as he had only once before run, and the men who were nigh to him went racing as they would not have run for their lives.

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**Who acts:** Nor, men · **What happens:** run, have, be, go, race, not run · **To what, where:** Nor

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, men), 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:pg2892:37:14
# text = And with that he ran, as he had only once before run, and the men who were nigh to him went racing as they would not have run for their lives.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	racing	race	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | present | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the men |  | Nor |  |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past | the men |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **race** | gerund | the men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **run** | would · perfect | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | for hounds's lives | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary |

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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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