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title: He wrapped Mongan in his green cloak and took him away to rear and t… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He wrapped Mongan in his green cloak and took him away to rear and train in the Land of Promise, which is beyond the sea that is at the other side of the grave. Who acts: Mongan, Promise, sea. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 17

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He wrapped Mongan in his green cloak and took him away to rear and train in the Land of Promise, which is beyond the sea that is at the other side of the grave.

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**Who acts:** Mongan, Promise, sea · **What happens:** wrap, take away, rear, train, be · **To what, where:** Mongan, green cloak, Land, other side

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, Promise, sea), 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:pg2892:79:17
# text = He wrapped Mongan in his green cloak and took him away to rear and train in the Land of Promise, which is beyond the sea that is at the other side of the grave.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	rear	rear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	train	train	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past | Mongan | Mongan |  | Mongan's green cloak |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mongan=Theme in cloak=Destination |
| 2 | **take away** | past | Mongan *not said here* | Mongan |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **rear** | to-infinitive | Mongan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **train** | infinitive | Mongan *not said here* |  |  | the Land of Promise |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | Promise |  |  |  |  | beyond the sea | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | the sea |  |  | the other side |  | of the grave | tree rules |

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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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