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title: But the object for which they were travelling was different, althoug… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the object for which they were travelling was different, although unknown, and the people they passed on the roads were unknown, and were yet people that they knew. Who acts: landmarks, object, people. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 39

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But the object for which they were travelling was different, although unknown, and the people they passed on the roads were unknown, and were yet people that they knew.

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**Who acts:** landmarks, object, people · **What happens:** travel, be, pass, know · **To what, where:** people, roads

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landmarks, object, people), 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:pg2892:1257`): 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:pg2892:41:39
# text = But the object for which they were travelling was different, although unknown, and the people they passed on the roads were unknown, and were yet people that they knew.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past · progressive | landmarks *= landmark* |  |  |  |  | for the object | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the object |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past | landmarks *= landmark* | the people *not said here* |  | the roads |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent people=Theme on road=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the people *not said here* | people |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | past | landmarks *= landmark* | people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=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:** 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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