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title: In particular he wished to gather tales which told of the deeds that… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In particular he wished to gather tales which told of the deeds that had been done before the Gospel came to Ireland. Who acts: neighbourhood, tales, Gospel. 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 3

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In particular he wished to gather tales which told of the deeds that had been done before the Gospel came to Ireland.

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**Who acts:** neighbourhood, tales, Gospel · **What happens:** wish, gather, tell, do, come · **To what, where:** particular, tales, deeds, Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (neighbourhood, tales, Gospel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:2165`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:72:3
# text = In particular he wished to gather tales which told of the deeds that had been done before the Gospel came to Ireland.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | neighbourhood |  |  | particular |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | neighbourhood *not said here* | tales |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | tales |  |  |  |  | of the deeds | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | the deeds |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | past | the Gospel |  |  | Ireland |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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