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title: There is a deep gulf to be gone through,” she said, “a place of sile… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a deep gulf to be gone through,” she said, “a place of silence and terror, full of dumb, venomous monsters. Who acts: deep gulf, gulf. 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 9

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There is a deep gulf to be gone through,” she said, “a place of silence and terror, full of dumb, venomous monsters.

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**Who acts:** deep gulf, gulf · **What happens:** be, go through, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (deep gulf, gulf), 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:pg2892:70:9
# text = There is a deep gulf to be gone through,” she said, “a place of silence and terror, full of dumb, venomous monsters.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	through	through	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a deep gulf |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go through** | to-infinitive · passive | a deep gulf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | gulf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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