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title: “If the son of a sinless couple can be found and if his blood be mix… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If the son of a sinless couple can be found and if his blood be mixed with the soll of Tara the blight and ruin will depart from Ireland,” said the magicians. Who acts: blight, magicians. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 32

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“If the son of a sinless couple can be found and if his blood be mixed with the soll of Tara the blight and ruin will depart from Ireland,” said the magicians.

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**Who acts:** blight, magicians · **What happens:** find, mix, depart, say · **To what, where:** son, blood, soll, Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (blight, magicians), 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:pg2892:65:32
# text = “If the son of a sinless couple can be found and if his blood be mixed with the soll of Tara the blight and ruin will depart from Ireland,” said the magicians.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sinless	sinless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	soll	soll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	blight	blight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can · passive |  | the son of a sinless couple |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **mix** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | way's blood |  |  |  | with the soll of Tara | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with soll=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **depart** *in a quote* | future | the blight and ruin | the soll of Tara *not said here* |  | Ireland |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soll=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the magicians |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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