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title: When they reached Ben Edair it was decided to pitch camp so that the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached Ben Edair it was decided to pitch camp so that the troops might rest in view of the warlike plan which Fionn had imagined for the morrow. Who acts: battles, troops. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8

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When they reached Ben Edair it was decided to pitch camp so that the troops might rest in view of the warlike plan which Fionn had imagined for the morrow.

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**Who acts:** battles, troops · **What happens:** reach, decide, pitch, rest, imagine, view · **To what, where:** Ben, army, camp, view, warlike plan

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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 (battles, troops), 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:pg2892:48:8
# text = When they reached Ben Edair it was decided to pitch camp so that the troops might rest in view of the warlike plan which Fionn had imagined for the morrow.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pitch	pitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | battles *= battle* | Ben |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **decide** | past · passive |  | army |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pitch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | camp |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme |
| 4 | **rest** | might | the troops |  |  | view of the warlike plan |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in view=Location |
| 5 | **imagine** | past · perfect · passive |  | the warlike plan |  |  |  | for the morrow | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **view** |  |  | the warlike plan |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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