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title: “Do you mean,” said Mongan, “that you would exchange this herd of fi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do you mean,” said Mongan, “that you would exchange this herd of fifty pure white cows having red ears--” Who acts: you, Mongan, fifty pure white cows. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 29

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“Do you mean,” said Mongan, “that you would exchange this herd of fifty pure white cows having red ears--”

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**Who acts:** you, Mongan, fifty pure white cows · **What happens:** mean, say, exchange, have · **To what, where:** herd, red ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mongan, fifty pure white cows), 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:pg2892:81:29
# text = “Do you mean,” said Mongan, “that you would exchange this herd of fifty pure white cows having red ears--”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mongan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **exchange** *in a quote* | would | you | this herd of fifty pure white cows |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | fifty pure white cows *not said here* | red ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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