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title: “By my weapons,” said he, “there were never less than an hundred-and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “By my weapons,” said he, “there were never less than an hundred-and-one men with Goll, and the least of them could have put you down easily enough.” Who acts: brother, less. 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 47

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“By my weapons,” said he, “there were never less than an hundred-and-one men with Goll, and the least of them could have put you down easily enough.”

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**Who acts:** brother, less · **What happens:** say, be, put down · **To what, where:** least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brother, less), 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:pg2892:46:47
# text = “By my weapons,” said he, “there were never less than an hundred-and-one men with Goll, and the least of them could have put you down easily enough.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nsubj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brother |  |  |  |  | by my weapons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | past | less |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put down** *in a quote* | could · perfect | brother *not said here* | the least |  |  |  | easily, enough *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal |

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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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