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title: “What is the bridge for?” said Tibraide’ Mongan and mac an Da’v foll… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What is the bridge for?” said Tibraide’ Mongan and mac an Da’v followed them. Who acts: bridge, Mongan. 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 38

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“What is the bridge for?” said Tibraide’ Mongan and mac an Da’v followed them.

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**Who acts:** bridge, Mongan · **What happens:** be, say, follow · **To what, where:** bridge, gods · **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 (bridge, 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:pg2892:86:38
# text = “What is the bridge for?” said Tibraide’ Mongan and mac an Da’v followed them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the bridge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the bridge |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** | past | Tibraide's Mongan and mac | gods *= god* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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