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title: “At the end of that time,” said Tuan, “Nemed the son of Agnoman came… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “At the end of that time,” said Tuan, “Nemed the son of Agnoman came to Ireland with a fleet of thirty-four barques, and in each barque there were thirty couples of people.” Who acts: Tuan, thirty couples. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian mu
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 10

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“At the end of that time,” said Tuan, “Nemed the son of Agnoman came to Ireland with a fleet of thirty-four barques, and in each barque there were thirty couples of people.”

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**Who acts:** Tuan, thirty couples · **What happens:** say, come, be · **To what, where:** end, Ireland, barque · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuan, thirty couples), 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:pg2892:6:10
# text = “At the end of that time,” said Tuan, “Nemed the son of Agnoman came to Ireland with a fleet of thirty-four barques, and in each barque there were thirty couples of people.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Agnoman	Agnoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	barques	barque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	barque	barque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
37	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  | at the end of that time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Tuan and Nemed |  |  | Ireland |  | with a fleet of four barques | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | past | thirty couples of people |  |  | each barque; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barque=Location |

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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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