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title: They set out southwards from Tara into the Duffry of Leinster, and a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They set out southwards from Tara into the Duffry of Leinster, and after some time they came into wild country and went astray. Who acts: landmarks. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 40

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They set out southwards from Tara into the Duffry of Leinster, and after some time they came into wild country and went astray.

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**Who acts:** landmarks · **What happens:** set out, come, go · **To what, where:** Tara, wild country

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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), 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:pg2892:41:40
# text = They set out southwards from Tara into the Duffry of Leinster, and after some time they came into wild country and went astray.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	southwards	southwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Duffry	Duffry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	astray	astray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | landmarks *= landmark* |  |  | Tara |  | into the Duffry of Leinster; southwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tara=Initial\_Location into duffry=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | landmarks *= landmark* |  |  | wild country | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | landmarks *= landmark* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | astray *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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