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title: There is one spike only which bears no head, and it is for your head… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is one spike only which bears no head, and it is for your head that spike is waiting. Who acts: one spike, head. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 30

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There is one spike only which bears no head, and it is for your head that spike is waiting.

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**Who acts:** one spike, head · **What happens:** be, wait

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one spike, head), 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:pg2892:70:30
# text = There is one spike only which bears no head, and it is for your head that spike is waiting.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one spike  which bears  no head |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | head |  |  |  |  | for your head | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | present · progressive | your head |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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