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title: “Indeed,” said Segda, returning those kisses, “indeed I had not barg… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Indeed,” said Segda, returning those kisses, “indeed I had not bargained to die for Ireland, but only to bathe in her waters and to remove her pestilence.” Who acts: Segda. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 14

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“Indeed,” said Segda, returning those kisses, “indeed I had not bargained to die for Ireland, but only to bathe in her waters and to remove her pestilence.”

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**Who acts:** Segda · **What happens:** say, return, not bargain, die, bathe, remove · **To what, where:** kisses, pestilence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Segda), 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:pg2892:68:14
# text = “Indeed,” said Segda, returning those kisses, “indeed I had not bargained to die for Ireland, but only to bathe in her waters and to remove her pestilence.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Segda	Segda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Segda |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | Segda *not said here* | that kisses |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **bargain** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Segda |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Segda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Ireland | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ireland=Theme |
| 5 | **bathe** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in Tara's waters | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=Theme |
| 6 | **remove** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Tara's pestilence |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pestilence=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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