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title: “Well,” said Branduv, “this woman is Duv Laca of the White Hand that… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” said Branduv, “this woman is Duv Laca of the White Hand that I took away from Mongan; she is just going to marry me, but if you will make an exchange, you can marry this Duv Laca here, and I will marry that Ivell of the Shining Cheeks yonder.” Who acts: woman, that, you, I. A sentence of «Ir
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 23

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“Well,” said Branduv, “this woman is Duv Laca of the White Hand that I took away from Mongan; she is just going to marry me, but if you will make an exchange, you can marry this Duv Laca here, and I will marry that Ivell of the Shining Cheeks yonder.”

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**Who acts:** woman, that, you, I, Ivell · **What happens:** say, be, take away, go, marry, make · **To what, where:** Duv, Mongan, me, exchange, Duv Laca · **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 (woman, that, you, I), 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:pg2892:91:23
# text = “Well,” said Branduv, “this woman is Duv Laca of the White Hand that I took away from Mongan; she is just going to marry me, but if you will make an exchange, you can marry this Duv Laca here, and I will marry that Ivell of the Shining Cheeks yonder.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Branduv	Branduv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Hand	Hand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
44	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	nsubj	_	_
45	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
54	Ivell	Ivell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Shining	Shining	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	Cheeks	cheek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
59	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this woman | Duv |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take away** *in a quote* | past | that |  |  | Mongan |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from mongan=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 6 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | a exchange |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exchange=Product |
| 7 | **marry** *in a quote* | can | you | Duv Laca |  | here |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laca=Patient |
| 8 | **marry** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **cheek** *in a quote* | present | Ivell of the Shining |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |

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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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