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title: From this place to the Hill of the Rushes, Slieve Luachra of Munster… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From this place to the Hill of the Rushes, Slieve Luachra of Munster, is exactly sixty miles. Who acts: place. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 13

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From this place to the Hill of the Rushes, Slieve Luachra of Munster, is exactly sixty miles.

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**Who acts:** place · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sixty miles

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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:pg2892:50:13
# text = From this place to the Hill of the Rushes, Slieve Luachra of Munster, is exactly sixty miles.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Luachra	Luachra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Munster	Munster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this place to the Hill of the Rushes and Slieve Luachra of Munster | sixty miles |  |  |  |  | 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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