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title: For on land or air there is always something excessive and hindering… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For on land or air there is always something excessive and hindering; as arms that swing at the sides of a man, and which the mind must remember. Who acts: something, arms, mind. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 22

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For on land or air there is always something excessive and hindering; as arms that swing at the sides of a man, and which the mind must remember.

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**Who acts:** something, arms, mind · **What happens:** be, hinder, swing, remember · **To what, where:** sides

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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 (something, arms, mind), 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:pg2892:9:22
# text = For on land or air there is always something excessive and hindering; as arms that swing at the sides of a man, and which the mind must remember.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
10	excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hindering	hinder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swing	swing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | something |  |  | there |  | for land or air; always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hinder** | gerund | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **swing** | present | arms |  |  | the sides of a man |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at side=Trajectory |
| 4 | **remember** | must | the mind |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=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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