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title: “But,” said Finnian in bewilderment, “there is an error here, for yo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But,” said Finnian in bewilderment, “there is an error here, for you have recited two different genealogies.” Who acts: Finnian, error, you. 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 20

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“But,” said Finnian in bewilderment, “there is an error here, for you have recited two different genealogies.”

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**Who acts:** Finnian, error, you · **What happens:** say, be, recite · **To what, where:** bewilderment, two different genealogies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Finnian, error, you), 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:pg2892:4:20
# text = “But,” said Finnian in bewilderment, “there is an error here, for you have recited two different genealogies.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Finnian |  |  | bewilderment |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in bewilderment=Manner |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a error |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **recite** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | two different genealogies |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genealogy=Theme |

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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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