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title: In the year when Ciaran the son of the Carpenter died, the same year… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the year when Ciaran the son of the Carpenter died, the same year when Tuathal Maelgariv was killed and the year when Diarmait the son of Cerrbel became king of all Ireland, the year 538 of our era in short, it happened that there was a great gathering of the men of Ireland at the Hill of Uisneac
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1

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In the year when Ciaran the son of the Carpenter died, the same year when Tuathal Maelgariv was killed and the year when Diarmait the son of Cerrbel became king of all Ireland, the year 538 of our era in short, it happened that there was a great gathering of the men of Ireland at the Hill of Uisneach in Royal Meath.

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**Who acts:** son, Diarmait, it, great gathering · **What happens:** die, kill, become, happen, be · **To what, where:** Tuathal, king

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Diarmait, it, great gathering), 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:pg2892:74:1
# text = In the year when Ciaran the son of the Carpenter died, the same year when Tuathal Maelgariv was killed and the year when Diarmait the son of Cerrbel became king of all Ireland, the year 538 of our era in short, it happened that there was a great gathering of the men of Ireland at the Hill of Uisneach in Royal Meath.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	Ciaran	Ciaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Carpenter	Carpenter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
17	Tuathal	Tuathal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	Maelgariv	Maelgariv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
25	Diarmait	Diarmait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Cerrbel	Cerrbel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
38	538	538	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	flat	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	49	expl	_	_
49	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Uisneach	Uisneach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	62	nmod	_	_
65	Meath	Meath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the son of the Carpenter |  |  |  | year |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive |  | Tuathal |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | Diarmait | king of all Ireland |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past | a great gathering of the men of Ireland at the Hill of Uisneach in Royal |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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