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title: For Nemed and four couples had been saved from that fierce storm, an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 30

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For Nemed and four couples had been saved from that fierce storm, and I saw them increase and multiply until four thousand couples lived and laughed and were riotous in the sun, for the people of Nemed had small minds but great activity.

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**Who acts:** I, couples, thousand couples, people · **What happens:** save, see, increase, multiply, live, laugh · **To what, where:** fierce storm, couples, sun, small minds

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, couples, thousand couples, people), 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:pg2892:7:30
# text = For Nemed and four couples had been saved from that fierce storm, and I saw them increase and multiply until four thousand couples lived and laughed and were riotous in the sun, for the people of Nemed had small minds but great activity.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	riotous	riotous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
41	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | that fierce storm |  | for Nemed and four couples | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: for nemed=Asset from storm=Source |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | couples *= couple* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **increase** | infinitive | couples *= couple* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **multiply** | infinitive | couples *= couple* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live** | past | thousand couples |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **laugh** | past | thousand couples *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | thousand couples *not said here* |  |  | the sun |  | riotous *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | the people of Nemed | small minds but great activity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |

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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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