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title: The nobles suggested to him that they should march against Leinster… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobles suggested to him that they should march against Leinster and kill that king and bring back Duv Laca, but Mongan would not consent to this plan. Who acts: nobles, Mongan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 39

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The nobles suggested to him that they should march against Leinster and kill that king and bring back Duv Laca, but Mongan would not consent to this plan.

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**Who acts:** nobles, Mongan · **What happens:** suggest, march, bring back, not consent · **To what, where:** King, Leinster, Duv · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nobles, 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:pg2892:89:39
# text = The nobles suggested to him that they should march against Leinster and kill that king and bring back Duv Laca, but Mongan would not consent to this plan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | the nobles |  | King |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **march** | should | nobles *= noble* |  |  | Leinster and kill |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against leinster=Trajectory |
| 3 | **bring back** | infinitive | nobles *= noble* *not said here* |  | Duv |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument duv=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **consent** | would | Mongan |  |  |  |  | to this plan | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to plan=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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