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title: And from his people the Tuatha De’ and the Ande’ came, although thei… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And from his people the Tuatha De’ and the Ande’ came, although their origin is forgotten, and learned people, because of their excellent wisdom and intelligence, say that they came from heaven. Who acts: Tuatha, excellent wisdom, wisdom. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 10

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And from his people the Tuatha De’ and the Ande’ came, although their origin is forgotten, and learned people, because of their excellent wisdom and intelligence, say that they came from heaven.

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**Who acts:** Tuatha, excellent wisdom, wisdom · **What happens:** come, forget, learn, say · **To what, where:** origin, people, heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuatha, excellent wisdom, wisdom), 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:pg2892:9:10
# text = And from his people the Tuatha De’ and the Ande’ came, although their origin is forgotten, and learned people, because of their excellent wisdom and intelligence, say that they came from heaven.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Ande	Ande	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Tuatha and the Ande |  |  |  |  | from Iarbonel's people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from people=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **forget** | present · passive |  | Tuatha's origin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | past | the Tuatha and the Ande *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | past | wisdom |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial\_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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