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title: Discipline sometimes irked him, and he would then take any opportuni… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Discipline sometimes irked him, and he would then take any opportunity that presented for an adventure; for he was not only a soldier, he was a poet also, that is, a man of science, and whatever was strange or unusual had an irresistible at-traction for him. Who acts: Discipline, Fionn, opportunity,
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2

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Discipline sometimes irked him, and he would then take any opportunity that presented for an adventure; for he was not only a soldier, he was a poet also, that is, a man of science, and whatever was strange or unusual had an irresistible at-traction for him.

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**Who acts:** Discipline, Fionn, opportunity, that, whatever · **What happens:** irk, take, present, not be, be, have · **To what, where:** Fionn, opportunity, poet, man, irresistible

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Discipline, Fionn, opportunity, that), 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:pg2892:56:2
# text = Discipline sometimes irked him, and he would then take any opportunity that presented for an adventure; for he was not only a soldier, he was a poet also, that is, a man of science, and whatever was strange or unusual had an irresistible at-traction for him.
1	Discipline	discipline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	irked	irk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advcl	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obj	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	traction	traction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **irk** | past | Discipline | Fionn |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | would | Fionn | any opportunity |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 3 | **present** | past | any opportunity |  |  |  |  | for a adventure | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for adventure=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | for a soldier | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Fionn | a poet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | that | a man |  |  |  | of science | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | whatever |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | whatever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | past | Discipline *not said here* | a irresistible |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent irresistible=Patient |

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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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