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title: Where she could go to no man knew, for she had been ban-ished from t… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Where she could go to no man knew, for she had been ban-ished from the Many-Coloured Land and could not return there. Who acts: Tara, man. 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 58

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Where she could go to no man knew, for she had been ban-ished from the Many-Coloured Land and could not return there.

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**Who acts:** Tara, man · **What happens:** go, know, ish, not return · **To what, where:** Tara, Coloured Land

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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 (Tara, man), 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:pg2892:71:58
# text = Where she could go to no man knew, for she had been ban-ished from the Many-Coloured Land and could not return there.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ished	ish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | could | Tara |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | no man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **ish** | past · perfect · passive |  | Tara |  | the Coloured Land |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **return** | could | Tara *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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