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title: In the Shi’ matrimony is recorded as being parallel in every respect… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Shi’ matrimony is recorded as being parallel in every respect with earth-marriage, and the desire which urges to it seems to be as violent and inconstant as it is with us; but in the Many-Coloured Land marriage is but a contemplation of beauty, a brooding and meditation wherein all grosser de
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11

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In the Shi’ matrimony is recorded as being parallel in every respect with earth-marriage, and the desire which urges to it seems to be as violent and inconstant as it is with us; but in the Many-Coloured Land marriage is but a contemplation of beauty, a brooding and meditation wherein all grosser desire is unknown and children are born to sinless parents.

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**Who acts:** desire, grosser desire · **What happens:** record, be, urge, seem, bear · **To what, where:** matrimony, respect, marriage, contemplation, Coloured Land marriage, children

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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 (desire, grosser desire), 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:pg2892:62:11
# text = In the Shi’ matrimony is recorded as being parallel in every respect with earth-marriage, and the desire which urges to it seems to be as violent and inconstant as it is with us; but in the Many-Coloured Land marriage is but a contemplation of beauty, a brooding and meditation wherein all grosser desire is unknown and children are born to sinless parents.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	matrimony	matrimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	urges	urge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	inconstant	inconstant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
42	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	brooding	brooding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
58	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	63	advmod	_	_
59	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	det	_	_
60	grosser	gross	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	61	amod	_	_
61	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
62	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
63	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	advcl	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
65	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	nsubj:pass	_	_
66	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux:pass	_	_
67	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	63	conj	_	_
68	to	to	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	sinless	sinless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | present · passive |  |  |  | the Shi's matrimony |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in matrimony=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | every respect with earth marriage |  | parallel *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **urge** | present | the desire |  | marriage |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seem** | present | the desire |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | the desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | violent *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | desire |  |  |  |  | with us | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | present |  | a contemplation and a brooding and meditation |  | the Coloured Land marriage |  | of beauty | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | present | all grosser desire |  |  |  |  | unknown, wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **bear** | present · passive |  | children |  |  |  | to sinless parents | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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