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title: “I have been informed,” Conn explained, “that if the son of a sinles… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have been informed,” Conn explained, “that if the son of a sinless couple is brought to Tara and is bathed in the waters of Ireland the land will be delivered from those ills.” Who acts: Conn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22

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“I have been informed,” Conn explained, “that if the son of a sinless couple is brought to Tara and is bathed in the waters of Ireland the land will be delivered from those ills.”

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**Who acts:** Conn · **What happens:** inform, explain, bring, bath, deliver · **To what, where:** Conn, son, Tara, land, waters, ills · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn), 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:pg2892:67:22
# text = “I have been informed,” Conn explained, “that if the son of a sinless couple is brought to Tara and is bathed in the waters of Ireland the land will be delivered from those ills.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sinless	sinless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	bathed	bath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	ills	ill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Conn |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Conn |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · passive |  | the son of a sinless couple | Tara |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tara=Destination |
| 4 | **bath** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the land |  | the waters of Ireland |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deliver** *in a quote* | future · passive |  |  |  | that ills |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: from ill=Initial\_Location |

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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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