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title: The High King and Crimthann would often set out from Tara to hunt an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9

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The High King and Crimthann would often set out from Tara to hunt and hawk, sometimes unaccompanied even by a servant; and on these excursions the king imparted to his foster-son his own wide knowledge of forest craft, and advised him generally as to the bearing and duties of a prince, the conduct of a court, and the care of a people.

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**Who acts:** High King, king, people · **What happens:** set out, hunt, hawk, impart, advise, conduct · **To what, where:** Tara, own wide knowledge, excursions, King, court

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High King, king, people), 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:pg2892:40:9
# text = The High King and Crimthann would often set out from Tara to hunt and hawk, sometimes unaccompanied even by a servant; and on these excursions the king imparted to his foster-son his own wide knowledge of forest craft, and advised him generally as to the bearing and duties of a prince, the conduct of a court, and the care of a people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hawk	hawk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	unaccompanied	unaccompanied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	excursions	excursion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	imparted	impart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	51	case	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | would | the High King and Crimthann |  |  | Tara |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tara=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the High King and Crimthann *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hawk** | infinitive | the High King and Crimthann *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **impart** | past | the king | King's own wide knowledge of forest craft |  | this excursions |  | to King's foster son | tree rules |
| 5 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the king *not said here* |  | King |  |  | as the bearing and duties of a prince and the conduct of a court; generally *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **conduct** |  |  | a court |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **care** |  | a people |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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