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title: “I am not as well acquainted with Ulster genealogies as I should be,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am not as well acquainted with Ulster genealogies as I should be, yet I know something of them. Who acts: Tuan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14

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“I am not as well acquainted with Ulster genealogies as I should be, yet I know something of them.

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**Who acts:** Tuan · **What happens:** not acquaint, know · **To what, where:** something

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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 (Tuan), 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:pg2892:4:14
# text = “I am not as well acquainted with Ulster genealogies as I should be, yet I know something of them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	7	cc	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **acquaint** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · passive | Tuan |  |  |  |  | with Ulster genealogies | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Tuan | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |

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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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