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title: “We maun be yonder the night,” says the bull, “for my young brither… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “We maun be yonder the night,” says the bull, “for my young brither lives yonder”; and they were there directly. Who acts: We, bull, sae. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 41

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“We maun be yonder the night,” says the bull, “for my young brither lives yonder”; and they were there directly.

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**Who acts:** We, bull, sae · **What happens:** maun, be, say, live · **To what, where:** night · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, bull, sae), 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:pg503:55:41
# text = “We maun be yonder the night,” says the bull, “for my young brither lives yonder”; and they were there directly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	maun	maun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	brither	brither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	ccomp	_	_
27	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maun** *in a quote* |  | We |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the night |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for my young brither; yonder *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | sae |  |  |  |  | directly, there *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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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