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title: And he has sent us to find out what part of that hellish treasure be… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he has sent us to find out what part of that hellish treasure belongs to the Brothers of Devenish and how much is the property of the king.” Who acts: man, part. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 30

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And he has sent us to find out what part of that hellish treasure belongs to the Brothers of Devenish and how much is the property of the king.”

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**Who acts:** man, part · **What happens:** send, find out, belong, be · **To what, where:** us, much property · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, part), 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:pg2892:44:30
# text = And he has sent us to find out what part of that hellish treasure belongs to the Brothers of Devenish and how much is the property of the king.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	hellish	hellish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Devenish	Devenish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	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 | **send** | present · perfect | man |  | us |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **find out** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **belong** | present | what part of that hellish treasure |  |  |  |  | to the Brothers of Devenish and the much property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | what part of that hellish treasure *not said here* | the much property |  |  |  | of the king | 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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