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title: For he could not forget Duv Laca of the White Hand, and he could not… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For he could not forget Duv Laca of the White Hand, and he could not remember her without longing and despair. Who acts: pleasure. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 3

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For he could not forget Duv Laca of the White Hand, and he could not remember her without longing and despair.

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**Who acts:** pleasure · **What happens:** not forget, not remember, long · **To what, where:** Duv Laca, Laca

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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 (pleasure), 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:pg2892:89:3
# text = For he could not forget Duv Laca of the White Hand, and he could not remember her without longing and despair.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Hand	Hand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | could | pleasure | Duv Laca of the White Hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **remember** | could | pleasure | Laca |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **long** | gerund | pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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