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title: When the king had gone by mac an Da’v groaned a deep and dejected gr… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the king had gone by mac an Da’v groaned a deep and dejected groan. Who acts: king, Da’v. 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 42

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When the king had gone by mac an Da’v groaned a deep and dejected groan.

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**Who acts:** king, Da’v · **What happens:** go, groan, deject · **To what, where:** deep groan

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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 (king, Da’v), 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:pg2892:85:42
# text = When the king had gone by mac an Da’v groaned a deep and dejected groan.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dejected	deject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the king |  |  |  |  | by mac | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mac=Location |
| 2 | **groan** | past | a Da’v | a deep groan |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent groan=Theme |
| 3 | **deject** | participle | a Da’v *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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