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title: Under all wrong-doing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we ar… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Under all wrong-doing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows. Who acts: feeling. 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 4

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Under all wrong-doing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

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**Who acts:** feeling · **What happens:** do, endow, privilege · **To what, where:** lies, we

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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 (feeling), 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:pg2892:69:4
# text = Under all wrong-doing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
6	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	privileged	privilege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund |  | lies |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality |
| 2 | **endow** | present · passive | the feeling *not said here* | we |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **privilege** | participle | the feeling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beyond our fellows | 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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