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title: “I won’t build house or hut for the sake of passing one night here,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I won’t build house or hut for the sake of passing one night here, for I hope never to see this place again.” Who acts: Cael, sake. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 4

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“I won’t build house or hut for the sake of passing one night here, for I hope never to see this place again.”

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**Who acts:** Cael, sake · **What happens:** not build, pass, not hope, see · **To what, where:** house, place

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, sake), 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:pg2892:51:4
# text = “I won’t build house or hut for the sake of passing one night here, for I hope never to see this place again.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **build** *in a quote* | future | Cael | house or hut |  |  |  | for the sake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent house=Product for sake=Asset |
| 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | gerund | the sake *not said here* |  |  | here | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hope** *in a quote* | present | Cael |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Cael *not said here* | this place |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |

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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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