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title: Mongan’s wife at that time was Bro’tiarna, the Flame Lady. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mongan’s wife at that time was Bro’tiarna, the Flame Lady. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 1

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Mongan’s wife at that time was Bro’tiarna, the Flame Lady.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Bro’tiarna

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg2892:73:1
# text = Mongan’s wife at that time was Bro’tiarna, the Flame Lady.
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Bro’tiarna	Bro'tiarna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Flame	Flame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mongan's wife at that time | Bro’tiarna and the Flame Lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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