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title: Just as at one time he could not be parted from Saeve, so now he cou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as at one time he could not be parted from Saeve, so now he could not be separated from this boy. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 1

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Just as at one time he could not be parted from Saeve, so now he could not be separated from this boy.

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**What happens:** not part, not separate · **To what, where:** he, Saeve

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2892:38:1
# text = Just as at one time he could not be parted from Saeve, so now he could not be separated from this boy.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **part** | could · passive |  | he |  |  | time | from Saeve | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from saeve=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **not** **separate** | could · passive |  | Saeve |  |  | now | from this boy | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from boy=Co-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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