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title: “If I had come here with horses and treasure you would be in your ri… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If I had come here with horses and treasure you would be in your right to take these from me, but you have no right to ask for what you are now asking.” Who acts: Mongan, you. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 25

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“If I had come here with horses and treasure you would be in your right to take these from me, but you have no right to ask for what you are now asking.”

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**Who acts:** Mongan, you · **What happens:** come, treasure, be, take, have, ask · **To what, where:** right, these · **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 (Mongan, you), 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:pg2892:91:25
# text = “If I had come here with horses and treasure you would be in your right to take these from me, but you have no right to ask for what you are now asking.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	treasure	treasure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | Mongan |  |  | here |  | with horses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **treasure** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  | your right |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | these |  |  |  | from Mongan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent this=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | no right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | no right *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=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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