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title: Mongan loved Duv Laca of the White Hand better than he loved his lif… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mongan loved Duv Laca of the White Hand better than he loved his life, better than he loved his honour. Who acts: Mongan, Laca. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 7

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Mongan loved Duv Laca of the White Hand better than he loved his life, better than he loved his honour.

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**Who acts:** Mongan, Laca · **What happens:** love, honour · **To what, where:** Duv Laca, life, honour

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, Laca), 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:pg2892:84:7
# text = Mongan loved Duv Laca of the White Hand better than he loved his life, better than he loved his honour.
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Hand	Hand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Mongan | Duv Laca of the White Hand |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laca=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | past | Laca | Laca's life |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
| 3 | **love** | past | Laca | Laca's honour |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus |
| 4 | **honour** |  | Laca |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: 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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