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title: “It is spoken like a hero,” he admitted after a moment, “and if you… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is spoken like a hero,” he admitted after a moment, “and if you cannot be matched on those terms it will not be from a dearth of applicants.” Who acts: Fionn, breath. 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 40

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“It is spoken like a hero,” he admitted after a moment, “and if you cannot be matched on those terms it will not be from a dearth of applicants.”

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**Who acts:** Fionn, breath · **What happens:** speak, admit, not match, not be · **To what, where:** breath, you, terms, dearth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fionn, breath), 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:pg2892:48:40
# text = “It is spoken like a hero,” he admitted after a moment, “and if you cannot be matched on those terms it will not be from a dearth of applicants.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	matched	match	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dearth	dearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	applicants	applicant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · passive |  | breath |  |  |  | like a hero | tree rules |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | Fionn |  |  |  | moment |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **match** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can · passive |  | you |  | that terms |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | future | breath | that terms *not said here* |  | a dearth |  | of applicants | 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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