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title: This knowledge will be useful to those upon whom a similar duty shou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This knowledge will be useful to those upon whom a similar duty should ever devolve. Who acts: knowledge, similar duty. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 2

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This knowledge will be useful to those upon whom a similar duty should ever devolve.

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**Who acts:** knowledge, similar duty · **What happens:** be, devolve

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knowledge, similar duty), 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:pg2892:66:2
# text = This knowledge will be useful to those upon whom a similar duty should ever devolve.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	devolve	devolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | this knowledge |  |  |  |  | to those; useful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **devolve** | should | a similar duty |  |  |  | ever |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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