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title: They discussed it unendingly, and at some moment of the day a man up… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They discussed it unendingly, and at some moment of the day a man upbraided Fionn because he had not found Caelte the son of Rona’n as had been agreed on. Who acts: hearts, man. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 2

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They discussed it unendingly, and at some moment of the day a man upbraided Fionn because he had not found Caelte the son of Rona’n as had been agreed on.

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**Who acts:** hearts, man · **What happens:** discuss, upbraid, not find, agree on · **To what, where:** conclusion, Fionn, Caelte

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts, man), 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:pg2892:53:2
# text = They discussed it unendingly, and at some moment of the day a man upbraided Fionn because he had not found Caelte the son of Rona’n as had been agreed on.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	unendingly	unendingly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	upbraided	upbraid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Rona’n	Rona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past | hearts *= heart* | conclusion |  |  |  | unendingly *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **upbraid** | past | a man | Fionn |  |  | moment |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | past · perfect | man | Caelte |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent caelte=Theme son=Attribute |
| 4 | **agree on** *speech: agree* | past · perfect · passive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |

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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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