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title: But remembering the safeguards under which he had been placed, he en… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But remembering the safeguards under which he had been placed, he enumerated these to the assembly, and called on the High King to grant him the protections that were his due. Who acts: Segda, protections. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 4

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But remembering the safeguards under which he had been placed, he enumerated these to the assembly, and called on the High King to grant him the protections that were his due.

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**Who acts:** Segda, protections · **What happens:** remember, place, enumerate, call, grant, be · **To what, where:** safeguards, Segda, these, protections · **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, protections), 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:pg2892:68:4
# text = But remembering the safeguards under which he had been placed, he enumerated these to the assembly, and called on the High King to grant him the protections that were his due.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	safeguards	safeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	protections	protection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | gerund | Segda *not said here* | the safeguards |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent safeguard=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | Segda |  | the safeguards |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under which=Destination |
| 3 | **enumerate** | past | Segda | these |  |  |  | to the assembly | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on the High King | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grant** | to-infinitive |  | the protections | Segda |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal protection=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the protections |  |  |  |  | due *property* | tree rules |

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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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