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title: And I was still a hawk when the sons of Mil drove the Tuatha De’ Dan… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And I was still a hawk when the sons of Mil drove the Tuatha De’ Danann under the ground, and held Ireland against arms or wizardry; and this was the coming of men and the beginning of genealogies. Who acts: I, sons, this. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its d
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 16

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And I was still a hawk when the sons of Mil drove the Tuatha De’ Danann under the ground, and held Ireland against arms or wizardry; and this was the coming of men and the beginning of genealogies.

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**Who acts:** I, sons, this · **What happens:** be, drive, hold, come, begin · **To what, where:** hawk, Tuatha De, ground, Ireland, arms, genealogies

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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 (I, sons, this), 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:pg2892:9:16
# text = And I was still a hawk when the sons of Mil drove the Tuatha De’ Danann under the ground, and held Ireland against arms or wizardry; and this was the coming of men and the beginning of genealogies.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mil	Mil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Danann	Danann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wizardry	wizardry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | I | a hawk |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | past | the sons of Mil | the Tuatha De |  | the ground |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent de=Theme under ground=Destination |
| 3 | **hold** | past |  | Ireland |  | arms or wizardry |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme against arm=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past · progressive | this |  |  |  |  | of men and the beginning of genealogies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of man=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **begin** |  |  | genealogies |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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