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title: “You made your bargain,” said the King of Leinster, “my cows and the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You made your bargain,” said the King of Leinster, “my cows and their calves for your Duv Laca, and the man that makes a bargain keeps a bargain.” Who acts: You, man, your. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 40

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“You made your bargain,” said the King of Leinster, “my cows and their calves for your Duv Laca, and the man that makes a bargain keeps a bargain.”

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**Who acts:** You, man, your · **What happens:** make, say, keep, bargain · **To what, where:** bargain, cows · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, man, your), 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:pg2892:82:40
# text = “You made your bargain,” said the King of Leinster, “my cows and their calves for your Duv Laca, and the man that makes a bargain keeps a bargain.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | You | your bargain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | my cows for your Duv and cows's calves |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | the man | a bargain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product |
| 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | the man | a bargain |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme |
| 5 | **bargain** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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