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title: “Since I left my own country I have not gone from a land or an islan… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Since I left my own country I have not gone from a land or an island until it paid tribute to me and acknowledged my lordship.” Who acts: man, land. 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 27

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“Since I left my own country I have not gone from a land or an island until it paid tribute to me and acknowledged my lordship.”

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**Who acts:** man, land · **What happens:** leave, not go, pay, acknowledge · **To what, where:** own country, land, tribute, man, lordship

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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 (man, land), 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:pg2892:48:27
# text = “Since I left my own country I have not gone from a land or an island until it paid tribute to me and acknowledged my lordship.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lordship	lordship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | the man *= man* | my own country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the man *= man* |  |  | a land or a island |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | past | land | tribute | the man *= man* |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset |
| 4 | **acknowledge** *in a quote* | past | land *not said here* | my lordship |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lordship=Topic |

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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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