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title: “If I were so minded, I would not let that last word go with you, Go… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If I were so minded, I would not let that last word go with you, Goll, for I have here an hundred men for every man of yours.” Who acts: Goll, last word. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 41

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“If I were so minded, I would not let that last word go with you, Goll, for I have here an hundred men for every man of yours.”

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**Who acts:** Goll, last word · **What happens:** be, not let, go, have · **To what, where:** hundred men

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goll, last word), 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:pg2892:46:41
# text = “If I were so minded, I would not let that last word go with you, Goll, for I have here an hundred men for every man of yours.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Goll |  |  |  |  | minded *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | would | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | that last word |  |  |  |  | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Goll | a hundred men |  | here |  | for every man of yours | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |

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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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