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title: “Even if you never heard of it before, you must do it now,” said Duv… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Even if you never heard of it before, you must do it now,” said Duv Laca, “for honour is longer than life.” Who acts: you, Duv. 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 42

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“Even if you never heard of it before, you must do it now,” said Duv Laca, “for honour is longer than life.”

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**Who acts:** you, Duv · **What happens:** not hear, do, say, be · **To what, where:** bargain · **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, Duv), 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:pg2892:82:42
# text = “Even if you never heard of it before, you must do it now,” said Duv Laca, “for honour is longer than life.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
20	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	parataxis	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | of bargain; before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | must | you | bargain |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Duv |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | for honour; than life; long *property* | tree rules |

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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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