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title: “Good my soul, Tibraide’!” cried the King of Leinster, and he gave M… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good my soul, Tibraide’!” cried the King of Leinster, and he gave Mongan a kiss. Who acts: Good soul, soul. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 1

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“Good my soul, Tibraide’!” cried the King of Leinster, and he gave Mongan a kiss.

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**Who acts:** Good soul, soul · **What happens:** cry, give · **To what, where:** King, kiss, Mongan

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good soul, soul), 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:pg2892:87:1
# text = “Good my soul, Tibraide’!” cried the King of Leinster, and he gave Mongan a kiss.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	iobj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | my Good soul | the King of Leinster |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | past | soul | a kiss | Mongan |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mongan=Recipient kiss=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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