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title: When the men of Ulster saw the condition into which Mongan fell they… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the men of Ulster saw the condition into which Mongan fell they were in great distress, and they all got sick through compassion for their king. Who acts: men, Mongan. 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 38

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When the men of Ulster saw the condition into which Mongan fell they were in great distress, and they all got sick through compassion for their king.

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**Who acts:** men, Mongan · **What happens:** see, fall, be, get · **To what, where:** condition, great distress, compassion

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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 (men, 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:pg2892:89:38
# text = When the men of Ulster saw the condition into which Mongan fell they were in great distress, and they all got sick through compassion for their king.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the men of Ulster | the condition |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer condition=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Mongan |  |  | the condition |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mongan |  |  | great distress |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | past | Mongan |  |  | compassion for Mongan's king |  | sick *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through compassion=Destination |

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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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