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title: Mongan and his servant sat against a grassy hedge by the roadside an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mongan and his servant sat against a grassy hedge by the roadside and watched the multitude streaming past. Who acts: Mongan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 20

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Mongan and his servant sat against a grassy hedge by the roadside and watched the multitude streaming past.

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**Who acts:** Mongan · **What happens:** sit, watch, stream · **To what, where:** grassy hedge, multitude

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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 (Mongan), 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:pg2892:85:20
# text = Mongan and his servant sat against a grassy hedge by the roadside and watched the multitude streaming past.
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	past	past	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Mongan and gathering's servant |  |  | a grassy hedge |  | by the roadside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against hedge=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | past | Mongan and gathering's servant *not said here* | the multitude |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Theme |
| 3 | **stream** | gerund | Mongan and gathering's servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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