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title: Now the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Corran, Conaran, son of Imidel, was… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Corran, Conaran, son of Imidel, was also watching the hunt, but Fionn did not see him, for we cannot see the people of Faery until we enter their realm, and Fionn was not thinking of Faery at that moment. Who acts: king, Fionn, we. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» b
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

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Now the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Corran, Conaran, son of Imidel, was also watching the hunt, but Fionn did not see him, for we cannot see the people of Faery until we enter their realm, and Fionn was not thinking of Faery at that moment.

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**Who acts:** king, Fionn, we · **What happens:** watch, not see, enter, not think · **To what, where:** hunt, king, people, realm

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Fionn, we), 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:pg2892:57:1
# text = Now the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Corran, Conaran, son of Imidel, was also watching the hunt, but Fionn did not see him, for we cannot see the people of Faery until we enter their realm, and Fionn was not thinking of Faery at that moment.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Cesh	Cesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Corran	Corran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Conaran	Conaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Imidel	Imidel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Faery	faery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	nmod	_	_
40	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Faery	faery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	55	det	_	_
55	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · progressive | the king of the Shi ’ of Cesh and Conaran and son of Imidel | the hunt |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | Fionn | king |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **see** | can | we | the people of Faery |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 4 | **enter** | present | we | people's realm |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme realm=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Fionn |  |  |  | moment | of Faery | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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