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title: For at that table Goll should not have given greater gifts than his… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For at that table Goll should not have given greater gifts than his master and host did. Who acts: master. 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 52

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For at that table Goll should not have given greater gifts than his master and host did.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** not give, do · **To what, where:** Goll

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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 (master), 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:pg2892:47:52
# text = For at that table Goll should not have given greater gifts than his master and host did.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | should · perfect · passive |  | Goll |  |  |  | for that table | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient gift=Theme for table=Asset |
| 2 | **do** | past | Goll's master and host |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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