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title: “There was a Cairide’ of my nation with Mongan when he went into Fae… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “There was a Cairide’ of my nation with Mongan when he went into Faery. Who acts: nation. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

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“There was a Cairide’ of my nation with Mongan when he went into Faery.

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**Who acts:** nation · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** Faery

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation), 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:pg2892:72:18
# text = “There was a Cairide’ of my nation with Mongan when he went into Faery.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cairide	Cairide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Faery	faery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past | a Cairide's nation with Mongan |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | nation |  |  | Faery |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into faery=Initial\_Location |

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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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