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title: Whenever he hunted he brought only the hounds that he trusted, Bran… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever he hunted he brought only the hounds that he trusted, Bran and Sceo’lan, Lomaire, Brod, and Lomlu; for if a fawn was chased each of these five great dogs would know if that was a fawn to be killed or one to be protected, and so there was small danger to Saeve and a small hope of finding her
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3

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Whenever he hunted he brought only the hounds that he trusted, Bran and Sceo’lan, Lomaire, Brod, and Lomlu; for if a fawn was chased each of these five great dogs would know if that was a fawn to be killed or one to be protected, and so there was small danger to Saeve and a small hope of finding her.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, each, that, small danger, small hope · **What happens:** hunt, bring, trust, chase, know, be · **To what, where:** hounds, fawn, one, Saeve

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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 (Fionn, each, that, small danger), 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:pg2892:37:3
# text = Whenever he hunted he brought only the hounds that he trusted, Bran and Sceo’lan, Lomaire, Brod, and Lomlu; for if a fawn was chased each of these five great dogs would know if that was a fawn to be killed or one to be protected, and so there was small danger to Saeve and a small hope of finding her.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Lomaire	Lomaire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Brod	Brod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Lomlu	Lomlu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
33	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	parataxis	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	55	expl	_	_
55	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
56	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
64	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
65	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	63	acl	_	_
66	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Fionn |  | the hounds |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hound=Destination |
| 3 | **trust** | past | Fionn | the hounds |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **chase** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | a fawn |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | would | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | that | a fawn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **kill** | to-infinitive · passive | each *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: one=Theme |
| 8 | **protect** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 9 | **be** | past | small danger to Saeve and a small hope |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **find** | gerund | a small hope *not said here* | Saeve |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |

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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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