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title: New memories come crowding on old ones, and one must learn to forget… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: New memories come crowding on old ones, and one must learn to forget as well as to remember. Who acts: New memories, one. 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 18

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New memories come crowding on old ones, and one must learn to forget as well as to remember.

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**Who acts:** New memories, one · **What happens:** come, crowd, learn, forget, remember

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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: who acts (New memories, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:1152`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:38:18
# text = New memories come crowding on old ones, and one must learn to forget as well as to remember.
1	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | New memories |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crowd** | gerund | New memories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on old ones | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on one=Destination |
| 3 | **learn** | must | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forget** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **remember** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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