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title: Yet, now that the years have gone by, I think the fault lay with Gol… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, now that the years have gone by, I think the fault lay with Goll and not with Fionn, and that the judgement given did not consider everything. Who acts: years, I, fault, judgement. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 51

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Yet, now that the years have gone by, I think the fault lay with Goll and not with Fionn, and that the judgement given did not consider everything.

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**Who acts:** years, I, fault, judgement · **What happens:** go, think, lay, give, not consider · **To what, where:** judgement, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (years, I, fault, judgement), 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:pg2892:47:51
# text = Yet, now that the years have gone by, I think the fault lay with Goll and not with Fionn, and that the judgement given did not consider everything.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	judgement	judgement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
31	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · perfect | the years |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | present | the fault |  |  |  |  | with Goll and Fionn | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | participle |  | the judgement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **consider** | past · do-support | the judgement | everything |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent everything=Attribute |

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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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