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title: By what arts she coaxed Curoi to give up his wand it matters not, en… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By what arts she coaxed Curoi to give up his wand it matters not, enough that she was able to return in triumph to Tara. Who acts: arts, it, Becuma. 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 33

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By what arts she coaxed Curoi to give up his wand it matters not, enough that she was able to return in triumph to Tara.

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**Who acts:** arts, it, Becuma · **What happens:** coax, give up, not matter, be, return · **To what, where:** Curoi, wand, Tara, triumph

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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 (arts, it, 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:pg2892:69:33
# text = By what arts she coaxed Curoi to give up his wand it matters not, enough that she was able to return in triumph to Tara.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	coaxed	coax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	Curoi	Curoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coax** | past | arts | Curoi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | to-infinitive | arts *not said here* | Art's wand |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Source |
| 3 | **not** **matter** | present | it | Art's wand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Becuma |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | to-infinitive | Becuma *not said here* |  | Tara | triumph |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tara=Result |

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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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