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title: “It wasn’t Tibraide was here,” said the hag who was still sitting on… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It wasn’t Tibraide was here,” said the hag who was still sitting on the spike, and was not half dead, “it was Mongan.” Who acts: more, Tibraide, hag. 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 29

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“It wasn’t Tibraide was here,” said the hag who was still sitting on the spike, and was not half dead, “it was Mongan.”

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**Who acts:** more, Tibraide, hag · **What happens:** not be, be, say, sit · **To what, where:** Tibraide, hag, spike, Mongan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (more, Tibraide, hag), 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:pg2892:88:29
# text = “It wasn’t Tibraide was here,” said the hag who was still sitting on the spike, and was not half dead, “it was Mongan.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	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	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	advmod	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | more | Tibraide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Tibraide *not said here* |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tibraide | the hag |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hag=Topic |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | the hag |  |  | the spike | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spike=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | more | Mongan |  |  |  |  | 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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