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title: “Do you see this woman sitting beside me?” he continued, pointing to… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do you see this woman sitting beside me?” he continued, pointing to Duv Laca. Who acts: you, woman, Branduv. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 21

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“Do you see this woman sitting beside me?” he continued, pointing to Duv Laca.

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**Who acts:** you, woman, Branduv · **What happens:** see, sit, continue, point · **To what, where:** woman, Duv · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman, Branduv), 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:pg2892:91:21
# text = “Do you see this woman sitting beside me?” he continued, pointing to Duv Laca.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | this woman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | this woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside Mongan | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location |
| 3 | **continue** | past | Branduv |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **point** | gerund | Branduv *not said here* |  | Duv |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to duv=Recipient |

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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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