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title: She made inquiries and was informed where the dun of Curoi mac Dare’… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She made inquiries and was informed where the dun of Curoi mac Dare’ was, and when she had received this intelligence she set out for Sliev Mis. Who acts: Becuma, dun. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 32

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She made inquiries and was informed where the dun of Curoi mac Dare’ was, and when she had received this intelligence she set out for Sliev Mis.

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**Who acts:** Becuma, dun · **What happens:** make, inform, be, receive, set out · **To what, where:** inquiries, intelligence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, dun), 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:pg2892:69:32
# text = She made inquiries and was informed where the dun of Curoi mac Dare’ was, and when she had received this intelligence she set out for Sliev Mis.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Curoi	Curoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Sliev	Sliev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Mis	Mis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Becuma | inquiries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | past · passive | Becuma *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | the dun of Curoi mac Dare |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | past · perfect | Becuma | this intelligence |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intelligence=Theme |
| 5 | **set out** | past | Becuma | this intelligence *not said here* |  |  |  | for Sliev Mis | 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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