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title: But no person could surmise anything about it beyond that it was a v… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But no person could surmise anything about it beyond that it was a vessel well equipped for war. Who acts: person, ship. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14

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But no person could surmise anything about it beyond that it was a vessel well equipped for war.

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**Who acts:** person, ship · **What happens:** surmise, be, equip · **To what, where:** anything, vessel

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, ship), 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:pg2892:48:14
# text = But no person could surmise anything about it beyond that it was a vessel well equipped for war.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	surmise	surmise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surmise** | could | no person | anything |  |  |  | about ship | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | ship |  |  |  |  | beyond a vessel | tree rules |
| 3 | **equip** | participle |  | a vessel *not said here* |  |  |  | for war; well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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