--- title: And, however ye deem my testimony of Fionn excessive, and, although… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And, however ye deem my testimony of Fionn excessive, and, although ye hold my praising overstrained, nevertheless, and by the King that is above me, he was three times better than all I say.--Saint PATRICK. Who acts: ye, that, Fionn, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, that, Fionn, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:13:5 # text = And, however ye deem my testimony of Fionn excessive, and, although ye hold my praising overstrained, nevertheless, and by the King that is above me, he was three times better than all I say.--Saint PATRICK. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 however however ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 5 deem deem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 testimony testimony NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 excessive excessive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 although although SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 praising praising NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 overstrained overstrain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 above above ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 obl _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Saint Saint PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 PATRICK PATRICK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **deem** | infinitive | ye | my testimony of Fionn | | | | Saint PATRICK *obl*; however *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent testimony=Attribute | | 2 | **hold** | infinitive | ye | my praising | | | | nevertheless *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **overstrain** | participle | ye *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | above me | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | Fionn | | | | time | by the King; than all; good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **testify** | | Fionn | | | | | | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/4/) - next →: [Chapter I, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/1/) - ↑ back to [The Boyhood of Fionn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/)