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title: “And during my absence,” Fionn continued, “I leave this as a compact… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “And during my absence,” Fionn continued, “I leave this as a compact, that you make friends with the Fianna here present, and that you observe all the conditions and ceremonies of friendship.” Who acts: Fionn, Cael, you, my. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its de
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 52

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“And during my absence,” Fionn continued, “I leave this as a compact, that you make friends with the Fianna here present, and that you observe all the conditions and ceremonies of friendship.”

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**Who acts:** Fionn, Cael, you, my · **What happens:** continue, leave, make, observe, absent · **To what, where:** this, friends, conditions

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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, Cael, you, my), 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:pg2892:48:52
# text = “And during my absence,” Fionn continued, “I leave this as a compact, that you make friends with the Fianna here present, and that you observe all the conditions and ceremonies of friendship.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	compact	compact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
27	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	observe	observe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Fionn |  |  |  | during my absence |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | present | Cael | this |  |  |  | as a compact | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | you | friends |  | here |  | with the Fianna; present *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product |
| 4 | **observe** *in a quote* | present | you | all conditions and ceremonies of friendship |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic |
| 5 | **absent** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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