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title: She went thence to the Shi’ ruled over by Eogabal, and although this… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She went thence to the Shi’ ruled over by Eogabal, and although this lord would not admit her, his daughter Aine’, who was her foster-sister, let her into Faery. Who acts: Becuma, lord, Aine. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 31

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She went thence to the Shi’ ruled over by Eogabal, and although this lord would not admit her, his daughter Aine’, who was her foster-sister, let her into Faery.

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**Who acts:** Becuma, lord, Aine · **What happens:** go, rule over, not admit, be, let · **To what, where:** Shi ’, Becuma, foster sister, Faery

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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, lord, Aine), 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:pg2892:69:31
# text = She went thence to the Shi’ ruled over by Eogabal, and although this lord would not admit her, his daughter Aine’, who was her foster-sister, let her into Faery.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Eogabal	Eogabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Aine	Aine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Faery	faery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Becuma |  |  | the Shi ’ |  | thence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to '=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rule over** | participle |  | the Shi ’ *not said here* |  |  |  | by Eogabal; over *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **admit** *speech: other* | would | this lord | Becuma |  |  |  | Aine  lord's daughter *obl* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Aine  lord's daughter | Becuma's foster sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | Becuma |  | Faery |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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