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title: She weighed all that he said on whatever subject, and when he talked… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She weighed all that he said on whatever subject, and when he talked in his sleep she listened to his dream. Who acts: lament, husband. 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 10

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She weighed all that he said on whatever subject, and when he talked in his sleep she listened to his dream.

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**Who acts:** lament, husband · **What happens:** weigh, say, talk, listen, sleep, dream · **To what, where:** all, subject, sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lament, husband), 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:pg2892:73:10
# text = She weighed all that he said on whatever subject, and when he talked in his sleep she listened to his dream.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
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	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | past | lament | all |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | husband |  |  | whatever subject |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | past | husband |  |  | husband's sleep |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **listen** | past | lament |  |  |  |  | to husband's dream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dream=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **dream** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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