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title: “There never was a year when Tibraide’s were as plentiful as they ar… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “There never was a year when Tibraide’s were as plentiful as they are this year. Who acts: Mongan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 18

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“There never was a year when Tibraide’s were as plentiful as they are this year.

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**Who acts:** Mongan · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. 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:pg2892:88:18
# text = “There never was a year when Tibraide’s were as plentiful as they are this year.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | plentiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mongan |  |  |  | as this year |  | tree rules |

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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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