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title: There was Dermod of the Gay Face, Caelte mac Ronan--but indeed there… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was Dermod of the Gay Face, Caelte mac Ronan--but indeed there were too many to be told of, for all the pillars of war and battle-torches of the Gael were there. Who acts: Dermod, pillars. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 26

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There was Dermod of the Gay Face, Caelte mac Ronan--but indeed there were too many to be told of, for all the pillars of war and battle-torches of the Gael were there.

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**Who acts:** Dermod, pillars · **What happens:** be, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dermod, pillars), 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:pg2892:45:26
# text = There was Dermod of the Gay Face, Caelte mac Ronan--but indeed there were too many to be told of, for all the pillars of war and battle-torches of the Gael were there.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Gay	Gay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ronan	Ronan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Dermod of the Gay Face and Caelte mac Ronan |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for all pillars of war and battle torches of the Gael | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | past | all pillars of war and battle torches of the Gael *not said here* |  |  |  |  | there *property* | 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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