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title: Among the names which her husband mentioned there was one which, bec… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the names which her husband mentioned there was one which, because of the frequency with which it appeared, and because of the tone of anguish and love and longing in which it was uttered, she thought of oftener than the others: this name was Duv Laca. Who acts: husband, one, it, lament. A sen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 13

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Among the names which her husband mentioned there was one which, because of the frequency with which it appeared, and because of the tone of anguish and love and longing in which it was uttered, she thought of oftener than the others: this name was Duv Laca.

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**Who acts:** husband, one, it, lament, name · **What happens:** mention, be, appear, utter, think, intonate · **To what, where:** names, longing, Duv, anguish

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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 (husband, one, it, lament), 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:pg2892:73:13
# text = Among the names which her husband mentioned there was one which, because of the frequency with which it appeared, and because of the tone of anguish and love and longing in which it was uttered, she thought of oftener than the others: this name was Duv Laca.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	frequency	frequency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
23	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	oftener	often	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	xcomp	_	_
43	than	than	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
51	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | past | lament's husband | the names |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past | one |  |  | the names; there |  | because the frequency | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among name=Location |
| 3 | **appear** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with the frequency | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | longing |  | longing |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | lament |  |  |  |  | because the tone of anguish and love and longing; often *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | this name | Duv |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **intonate** |  |  | anguish and love and longing |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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