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title: Let a reliquary be formed with cunning workmanship of that gold and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Let a reliquary be formed with cunning workmanship of that gold and silver, dated with my date and signed with my name, to be in memory of my grandmother who gave birth to a lamb, to a salmon, and then to my father, the Ard-Ri’. Who acts: grandmother, my. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James S
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 35

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Let a reliquary be formed with cunning workmanship of that gold and silver, dated with my date and signed with my name, to be in memory of my grandmother who gave birth to a lamb, to a salmon, and then to my father, the Ard-Ri’.

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**Who acts:** grandmother, my · **What happens:** let, form, date, sign, be, give · **To what, where:** reliquary, memory, birth, lamb

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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 (grandmother, my), 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:pg2892:44:35
# text = Let a reliquary be formed with cunning workmanship of that gold and silver, dated with my date and signed with my name, to be in memory of my grandmother who gave birth to a lamb, to a salmon, and then to my father, the Ard-Ri’.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reliquary	reliquary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dated	date	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	Ard	Ard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	Ri	Ri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  | a reliquary |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reliquary=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with cunning workmanship of that gold and silver | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **date** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with my date | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sign** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with my name | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with name=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | memory |  | of my grandmother | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | past | my grandmother | birth | a lamb |  |  | to a salmon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to lamb=Recipient |
| 7 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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