---
title: Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish Odyssey" ("_Merugud Uilix maiec Leirtis_"--"Wandering of Ulysses M'Laertes"). Who acts: story. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [XXII. Story of Ivan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/) / 8

# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 8

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish Odyssey" ("\_Merugud Uilix maiec Leirtis\_"--"Wandering of Ulysses M'Laertes").

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** form, call, wander · **To what, where:** chief episode, Ulysses M'Laertes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7885:56:8
# text = Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish Odyssey" ("_Merugud Uilix maiec Leirtis_"--"Wandering of Ulysses M'Laertes").
1	Curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Merugud	Merugud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Uilix	Uilix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	maiec	maiec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
24	Leirtis	Leirtis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Wandering	wandering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	M'Laertes	M'Laertes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | story | the chief episode |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location episode=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the chief episode *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wander** *in a quote* |  |  | Ulysses M'Laertes |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/7/)
- next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/9/)
- ↑ back to [XXII. Story of Ivan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/)