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title: Wait here, beloved, and eat blackberries until I come back, and we’l… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait here, beloved, and eat blackberries until I come back, and we’ll both start fair.” Who acts: you, I, we, both. 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 32

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Wait here, beloved, and eat blackberries until I come back, and we’ll both start fair.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, we, both · **What happens:** wait, eat, come back, 'll, start · **To what, where:** blackberries

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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, I, we, both), 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:pg2892:52:32
# text = Wait here, beloved, and eat blackberries until I come back, and we’ll both start fair.”
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’ll	'll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | blackberries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Patient |
| 3 | **come back** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **'ll** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **start** | present | both |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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