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title: “Molasius had those seven miscreants buried, and he took from their… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Molasius had those seven miscreants buried, and he took from their unhallowed necks and from their lewd arms and from their unblessed weapons the load of two men in gold and silver treasure.” Who acts: Molasius. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tre
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 26

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“Molasius had those seven miscreants buried, and he took from their unhallowed necks and from their lewd arms and from their unblessed weapons the load of two men in gold and silver treasure.”

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**Who acts:** Molasius · **What happens:** have, bury, take, unhallow · **To what, where:** seven miscreants, load, unhallowed necks

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molasius), 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:pg2892:44:26
# text = “Molasius had those seven miscreants buried, and he took from their unhallowed necks and from their lewd arms and from their unblessed weapons the load of two men in gold and silver treasure.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Molasius	Molasius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	miscreants	miscreant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	unhallowed	unhallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lewd	lewd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	unblessed	unblessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Molasius | that seven miscreants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miscreant=Patient |
| 2 | **bury** *in a quote* | participle |  | that seven miscreants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | past | Molasius | the load of two men in gold and silver treasure |  | miscreants's unhallowed necks and miscreants's lewd arms and miscreants's unblessed weapons |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent load=Theme from neck=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **unhallow** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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