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title: But if all those trials had been gathered into one vast calamity the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But if all those trials had been gathered into one vast calamity they would not equal one half of the rage and catastrophe of his war with Morgan. Who acts: trials, King. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 36

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But if all those trials had been gathered into one vast calamity they would not equal one half of the rage and catastrophe of his war with Morgan.

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**Who acts:** trials, King · **What happens:** gather, not equal, war · **To what, where:** trials, one half

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trials, King), 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:pg2892:71:36
# text = But if all those trials had been gathered into one vast calamity they would not equal one half of the rage and catastrophe of his war with Morgan.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | all trials |  |  |  | into one vast calamity | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient into calamity=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **not** **equal** | would | trials *= trial* | one half of the rage and catastrophe of King's war with Morgan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **war** |  | King |  |  |  |  | with Morgan | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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