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title: The men of Ulster disliked him, and they petitioned Mananna’n to bri… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The men of Ulster disliked him, and they petitioned Mananna’n to bring Mongan back, but Mananna’n would not do this until the boy was sixteen years of age and well reared in the wisdom of the Land of Promise. Who acts: men, Mananna’n, boy. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 20

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The men of Ulster disliked him, and they petitioned Mananna’n to bring Mongan back, but Mananna’n would not do this until the boy was sixteen years of age and well reared in the wisdom of the Land of Promise.

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**Who acts:** men, Mananna’n, boy · **What happens:** dislike, petition, bring back, not do, be, rear · **To what, where:** Ulster, Mananna’n, Mongan, this, wisdom

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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 (men, Mananna’n, boy), 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:pg2892:79:20
# text = The men of Ulster disliked him, and they petitioned Mananna’n to bring Mongan back, but Mananna’n would not do this until the boy was sixteen years of age and well reared in the wisdom of the Land of Promise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	petitioned	petition	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dislike** | past | the men of Ulster | Ulster |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **petition** | past | men *= man* | Mananna’n |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  | Mongan |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mongan=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **do** | would | Mananna’n | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  | until sixteen years; of age |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rear** | participle | Mananna’n *not said here* |  |  | the wisdom of the Land of Promise |  | well *property* | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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