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title: The people who superintended her departure said mournfully that when… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The people who superintended her departure said mournfully that when she was gone there would be no more beauty left in their world. Who acts: people, One. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 28

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The people who superintended her departure said mournfully that when she was gone there would be no more beauty left in their world.

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**Who acts:** people, One · **What happens:** superintend, say, go, be, leave, depart · **To what, where:** departure, One, more beauty, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, One), 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:pg2892:62:28
# text = The people who superintended her departure said mournfully that when she was gone there would be no more beauty left in their world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	superintended	superintend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	no	no	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **superintend** | past | the people | One's departure |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent departure=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the people |  |  |  |  | mournfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past · passive |  | One |  | there |  | that *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | would |  | more beauty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | participle |  | more beauty *not said here* |  |  |  | in people's world *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in world=Result |
| 6 | **depart** |  | One |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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