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title: For, notwithstanding the endless bicker of these two heroes, they lo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For, notwithstanding the endless bicker of these two heroes, they loved each other well. Who acts: heroes, two heroes. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 50

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For, notwithstanding the endless bicker of these two heroes, they loved each other well.

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**Who acts:** heroes, two heroes · **What happens:** notwithstand, love, bicker · **To what, where:** endless bicker, each

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes, two heroes), 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:pg2892:47:50
# text = For, notwithstanding the endless bicker of these two heroes, they loved each other well.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bicker	bicker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	13	obj	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notwithstand** | gerund | heroes *= hero* *not said here* | the endless bicker of this two heroes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past | heroes *= hero* | each |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bicker** |  | this two heroes |  |  |  |  |  | nom bicker «communication intransitive»: of=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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