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title: Three young men met him, each in battle harness, and these four adva… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Three young men met him, each in battle harness, and these four advanced to meet four other men who awaited them at a little distance on the lawn. Who acts: Three young men, four other men. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 24

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Three young men met him, each in battle harness, and these four advanced to meet four other men who awaited them at a little distance on the lawn.

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**Who acts:** Three young men, four other men · **What happens:** meet, await · **To what, where:** eye, four other men, eyelids

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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 (Three young men, four other men), 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:pg2892:42:24
# text = Three young men met him, each in battle harness, and these four advanced to meet four other men who awaited them at a little distance on the lawn.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Three young men | eye |  |  |  | each *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Three young men *not said here* | four other men |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **await** | past | four other men | eyelids *= eyelid* |  |  |  | at a little distance on the lawn | tree rules |

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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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