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title: “If you can find a man among your fourteen battalions who can outrun… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you can find a man among your fourteen battalions who can outrun or outwrestle or outfight me, I will take myself off to my own country, and will trouble you no more.” Who acts: you, fourteen battalions, Cael. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tr
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 38

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“If you can find a man among your fourteen battalions who can outrun or outwrestle or outfight me, I will take myself off to my own country, and will trouble you no more.”

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**Who acts:** you, fourteen battalions, Cael · **What happens:** find, outrun, outwrestle, outfight, take off, no · **To what, where:** man, Cael, more

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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 (you, fourteen battalions, Cael), 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:pg2892:48:38
# text = “If you can find a man among your fourteen battalions who can outrun or outwrestle or outfight me, I will take myself off to my own country, and will trouble you no more.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	battalions	battalion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	outrun	outrun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	outwrestle	outwrestle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	outfight	outfight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	no	no	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | a man |  |  |  | among your fourteen battalions | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **outrun** *in a quote* | can | your fourteen battalions |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **outwrestle** *in a quote* | infinitive | your fourteen battalions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **outfight** *in a quote* | infinitive | your fourteen battalions *not said here* | Cael |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take off** *in a quote* | future | Cael | Cael |  |  |  | to my own country | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 6 | **no** *in a quote* | present | you | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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