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title: For he did not like to be in the wrong, and he did not wish that any… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For he did not like to be in the wrong, and he did not wish that any person should have an unsatisfied claim upon him. Who acts: king, person. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 7

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For he did not like to be in the wrong, and he did not wish that any person should have an unsatisfied claim upon him.

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**Who acts:** king, person · **What happens:** not like, be, not wish, have · **To what, where:** unsatisfied claim

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, person), 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:pg2892:77:7
# text = For he did not like to be in the wrong, and he did not wish that any person should have an unsatisfied claim upon him.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	unsatisfied	unsatisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **have** | should | any person | a unsatisfied claim |  |  |  | upon king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=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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