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title: “By my hand,” the man cried, “there is no person in Ireland but myse… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “By my hand,” the man cried, “there is no person in Ireland but myself can win that race. Who acts: man, person. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29

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“By my hand,” the man cried, “there is no person in Ireland but myself can win that race.

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**Who acts:** man, person · **What happens:** cry, be, win · **To what, where:** race · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, person), 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:pg2892:49:29
# text = “By my hand,” the man cried, “there is no person in Ireland but myself can win that race.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	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	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the man |  |  |  |  | by my hand | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no person in Ireland |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **win** *in a quote* | can | the man *= man* | that race |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |

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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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