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title: In due time a messenger came from the king directing Art to leave Ta… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In due time a messenger came from the king directing Art to leave Tara instantly, and to leave Ireland for one full year. Who acts: messenger. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22

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In due time a messenger came from the king directing Art to leave Tara instantly, and to leave Ireland for one full year.

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**Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** come, direct, leave · **To what, where:** Art, Tara, Ireland

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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:pg2892:65:22
# text = In due time a messenger came from the king directing Art to leave Tara instantly, and to leave Ireland for one full year.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	directing	direct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a messenger |  |  |  | time | from the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **direct** | gerund | a messenger *not said here* | Art |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent art=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | a messenger *not said here* | Tara |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tara=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | a messenger *not said here* | Ireland |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme |

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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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