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title: “Goll,” said he, “how long have you been taking tribute from the peo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Goll,” said he, “how long have you been taking tribute from the people of Lochlann?” Who acts: Goll. 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 9

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“Goll,” said he, “how long have you been taking tribute from the people of Lochlann?”

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**Who acts:** Goll · **What happens:** say, take · **To what, where:** tribute · **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 (Goll), 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:pg2892:46:9
# text = “Goll,” said he, “how long have you been taking tribute from the people of Lochlann?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
15	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Goll | tribute |  |  |  | from the people of Lochlann; long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme from people=Initial\_Location |

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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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