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title: I am only the servant, and although I didn’t make any bargain with t… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I am only the servant, and although I didn’t make any bargain with the King of Leinster or with any king of them all, yet my wife is gone away as if she was the consort of a potentate the same as Duv Laca is.” Who acts: I, wife, Duv. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 28

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I am only the servant, and although I didn’t make any bargain with the King of Leinster or with any king of them all, yet my wife is gone away as if she was the consort of a potentate the same as Duv Laca is.”

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**Who acts:** I, wife, Duv · **What happens:** be, not make · **To what, where:** servant, bargain, consort

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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 (I, wife, Duv), 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:pg2892:89:28
# text = I am only the servant, and although I didn’t make any bargain with the King of Leinster or with any king of them all, yet my wife is gone away as if she was the consort of a potentate the same as Duv Laca is.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	potentate	potentate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	flat	_	_
48	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | I | any bargain or any king of bargain |  |  |  | with the King of Leinster | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | my wife |  |  |  |  | away, go *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | wife | the consort |  |  |  | of a potentate | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | present | Duv |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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