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title: Becuma then put a cloak about her and she went from Tara northward a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Becuma then put a cloak about her and she went from Tara northward and eastward until she came to the dewy, sparkling Brugh of Angus mac an Og in Ulster, but she was not admitted there. Who acts: Becuma. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 30

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Becuma then put a cloak about her and she went from Tara northward and eastward until she came to the dewy, sparkling Brugh of Angus mac an Og in Ulster, but she was not admitted there.

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**Who acts:** Becuma · **What happens:** put, go, come, sparkle, not admit · **To what, where:** cloak, Tara, dewy, Brugh, Becuma

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma), 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:pg2892:69:30
# text = Becuma then put a cloak about her and she went from Tara northward and eastward until she came to the dewy, sparkling Brugh of Angus mac an Og in Ulster, but she was not admitted there.
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	Brugh	Brugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Angus	Angus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Becuma | a cloak |  |  | then | about game | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme about she=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | Becuma |  |  | Tara |  | northward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from tara=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | Becuma |  |  | the dewy |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dewy=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | Becuma *not said here* | Brugh of Angus mac |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brugh=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **admit** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Becuma |  | there |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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