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title: On the return journey he was met by messengers who brought news from… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the return journey he was met by messengers who brought news from Ireland. Who acts: messengers. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 16

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On the return journey he was met by messengers who brought news from Ireland.

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**Who acts:** messengers · **What happens:** meet, bring · **To what, where:** Fiachna, return journey, news, Ireland

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messengers), 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:pg2892:76:16
# text = On the return journey he was met by messengers who brought news from Ireland.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · passive | messengers | Fiachna |  | the return journey |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past | messengers | news |  | Ireland |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent news=Theme from ireland=Initial\_Location |

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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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