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title: “Keep your filth, beggarman,” the other replied, “for I would rather… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Keep your filth, beggarman,” the other replied, “for I would rather be hanged than gnaw on a bone that you have browsed.” Who acts: you, filth. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10

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“Keep your filth, beggarman,” the other replied, “for I would rather be hanged than gnaw on a bone that you have browsed.”

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**Who acts:** you, filth · **What happens:** keep, reply, hange, gnaw, browse · **To what, where:** filth, meaty bone, bone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, filth), 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:pg2892:52:10
# text = “Keep your filth, beggarman,” the other replied, “for I would rather be hanged than gnaw on a bone that you have browsed.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	filth	filth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
21	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	browsed	browse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your filth and beggarman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | your filth and beggarman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hange** *in a quote* | would · passive |  | a meaty bone *= bone* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gnaw** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a bone | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on bone=Patient |
| 5 | **browse** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a bone |  |  |  |  | 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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