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title: Mongan and his servant went home, and (for what pleasure is greater… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mongan and his servant went home, and (for what pleasure is greater than that of memory exercised in conversation?) for a time the feeling of an adventure well accomplished kept him in some contentment. Who acts: Mongan, feeling. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII, wi
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 1

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Mongan and his servant went home, and (for what pleasure is greater than that of memory exercised in conversation?) for a time the feeling of an adventure well accomplished kept him in some contentment.

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**Who acts:** Mongan, feeling · **What happens:** go, be, exercise, accomplish, keep · **To what, where:** memory, conversation, time, feeling, contentment

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, feeling), 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:pg2892:89:1
# text = Mongan and his servant went home, and (for what pleasure is greater than that of memory exercised in conversation?) for a time the feeling of an adventure well accomplished kept him in some contentment.
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
34	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	contentment	contentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Mongan and his servant |  |  |  | time | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for pleasure; than that; great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **exercise** | participle |  | memory *not said here* |  | conversation |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accomplish** | past | the feeling of a adventure | a time *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality |
| 5 | **keep** | past | Mongan and his servant *not said here* | feeling |  | some contentment |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in contentment=Location |

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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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