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title: Mongan then took on himself the form of Tibraide’ and he turned mac… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mongan then took on himself the form of Tibraide’ and he turned mac an Da’v into the shape of the clerk. Who acts: 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 43

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Mongan then took on himself the form of Tibraide’ and he turned mac an Da’v into the shape of the clerk.

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**Who acts:** Mongan · **What happens:** take, turn mac, form · **To what, where:** form, Da’v, shape, Tibraide

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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 (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:pg2892:86:43
# text = Mongan then took on himself the form of Tibraide’ and he turned mac an Da’v into the shape of the clerk.
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	mac	mac	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Mongan | the form of Tibraide |  |  | then | on Mongan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme on himself=Destination |
| 2 | **turn mac** | past | Mongan | a Da’v |  | the shape of the clerk |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent da'v=Theme into shape=Trajectory |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | Tibraide |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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