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title: It was a long, uneasy journey, for although mac an Da’v was of stout… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a long, uneasy journey, for although mac an Da’v was of stout heart and goodwill, yet no man can carry another on his back from Ulster to Leinster and go quick. Who acts: It, Da’v, man. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 1

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It was a long, uneasy journey, for although mac an Da’v was of stout heart and goodwill, yet no man can carry another on his back from Ulster to Leinster and go quick.

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**Who acts:** It, Da’v, man · **What happens:** be, carry, go · **To what, where:** long uneasy journey, mac, another, Leinster, back

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Da’v, man), 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:pg2892:85:1
# text = It was a long, uneasy journey, for although mac an Da’v was of stout heart and goodwill, yet no man can carry another on his back from Ulster to Leinster and go quick.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	goodwill	goodwill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
36	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a long uneasy journey |  |  |  | for mac | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a Da’v | mac *not said here* |  |  |  | of stout heart and goodwill | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | can | no man | another | Leinster | man's back from Ulster |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme to leinster=Destination |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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