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title: “Wherever I looked among my tribes I saw love and obedience: wheneve… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wherever I looked among my tribes I saw love and obedience: whenever I appeared among the strangers they fled away. Who acts: I, love. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 9

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“Wherever I looked among my tribes I saw love and obedience: whenever I appeared among the strangers they fled away.

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**Who acts:** I, love · **What happens:** look, see, appear, flee away · **To what, where:** love, strangers

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, love), 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:pg2892:8:9
# text = “Wherever I looked among my tribes I saw love and obedience: whenever I appeared among the strangers they fled away.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  | among my tribes; wherever *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among tribe=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | love and obedience |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus |
| 3 | **appear** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  | the strangers |  | whenever *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among stranger=Location |
| 4 | **flee away** *in a quote* | past | love | the strangers *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stranger=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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