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title: “Indeed, I have a right to be in my own house,” said Mongan. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Indeed, I have a right to be in my own house,” said Mongan. Who acts: Mongan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 6

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“Indeed, I have a right to be in my own house,” said Mongan.

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**Who acts:** Mongan · **What happens:** have, be, say · **To what, where:** right, own house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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:pg2892:80:6
# text = “Indeed, I have a right to be in my own house,” said Mongan.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Mongan | a right |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mongan *not said here* | a right *not said here* |  | my own house |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mongan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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