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title: “You ought to be at Dun Fiathac avenging the murder of your father,”… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You ought to be at Dun Fiathac avenging the murder of your father,” replied the cleric, “and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for not having done it long ago. Who acts: cleric. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 9

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“You ought to be at Dun Fiathac avenging the murder of your father,” replied the cleric, “and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for not having done it long ago.

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**Who acts:** cleric · **What happens:** be, avenge, reply, not do, murder · **To what, where:** Dun, murder, father · **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 (cleric), 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:pg2892:80:9
# text = “You ought to be at Dun Fiathac avenging the murder of your father,” replied the cleric, “and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for not having done it long ago.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dun	Dun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	Fiathac	Fiathac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	avenging	avenge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cleric	cleric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Dun |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **avenge** *in a quote* | ought |  | the murder of your father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the cleric |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | ought | the cleric *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of yourself; ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect | the cleric *not said here* | murder |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **murder** *in a quote* |  |  | your father |  |  |  |  | nom murder «act transitive»: of=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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