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title: Come, my son,” she said to Segda, for it was Segda’s mother who had… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, my son,” she said to Segda, for it was Segda’s mother who had come to save him; and then that sinless queen and her son went back to their home of enchantment, leaving the king and Fionn and the magicians and nobles of Ireland astonished and ashamed. Who acts: you, Becuma, effect, Segda mother
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 42

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Come, my son,” she said to Segda, for it was Segda’s mother who had come to save him; and then that sinless queen and her son went back to their home of enchantment, leaving the king and Fionn and the magicians and nobles of Ireland astonished and ashamed.

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**Who acts:** you, Becuma, effect, Segda mother, sinless queen · **What happens:** come, say, be, save, go back, leave · **To what, where:** Segda, king · **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 (you, Becuma, effect, Segda mother), 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:pg2892:68:42
# text = Come, my son,” she said to Segda, for it was Segda’s mother who had come to save him; and then that sinless queen and her son went back to their home of enchantment, leaving the king and Fionn and the magicians and nobles of Ireland astonished and ashamed.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Segda	Segda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Segda	Segda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	sinless	sinless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my son *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Becuma |  | Segda |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to segda=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | effect |  |  |  |  | 's Segda | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Segda mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **save** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Segda mother *not said here* | Segda |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **go back** *in a quote* | past | that sinless queen and Becuma's son |  |  |  | then | to queen's home of enchantment *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
| 7 | **leave** *in a quote* | gerund | that sinless queen and Becuma's son *not said here* | the king and Fionn and the magicians and nobles of Ireland |  |  |  | astonished *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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