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title: And they don’t like our gods at all!” said mac an Da’v. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they don’t like our gods at all!” said mac an Da’v. Who acts: men. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 19

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And they don’t like our gods at all!” said mac an Da’v.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** not do, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg2892:86:19
# text = And they don’t like our gods at all!” said mac an Da’v.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | like our gods  all said mac | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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