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title: The knowledge that she gleaned from those listenings tormented her f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 11

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The knowledge that she gleaned from those listenings tormented her far more than it satisfied her, for the names of other women were continually on his lips, sometimes in terms of dear affection, sometimes in accents of anger or despair, and in his sleep he spoke familiarly of people whom the story-tellers told of, but who had been dead for centuries.

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**Who acts:** lament, knowledge, dream, husband · **What happens:** glean, torment, satisfy, be, speak, tell · **To what, where:** knowledge, listenings, more, lament, lips, 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, knowledge, dream, 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:pg2892:73:11
# text = The knowledge that she gleaned from those listenings tormented her far more than it satisfied her, for the names of other women were continually on his lips, sometimes in terms of dear affection, sometimes in accents of anger or despair, and in his sleep he spoke familiarly of people whom the story-tellers told of, but who had been dead for centuries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gleaned	glean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	listenings	listening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	tormented	torment	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obj	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
51	familiarly	familiarly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
54	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	acl:relcl	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	tellers	teller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
59	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
62	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
63	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	66	nsubj	_	_
64	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
65	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	66	cop	_	_
66	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
67	for	for	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glean** | past | lament | the knowledge *not said here* |  | that listenings |  |  | vn learn-14-2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knowledge=Topic from listening=Source |
| 2 | **torment** | past | the knowledge | more |  |  |  | for the names | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer |
| 3 | **satisfy** | past | dream | lament |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  | husband's lips and terms of dear affection in accents of anger or despair |  | of other women; continually *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | husband |  |  | husband's sleep |  | of people; familiarly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the story tellers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | century | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **term** |  |  | dear affection in accents of anger or despair |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **accent** |  |  | anger or despair |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **sleep** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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