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title: Fionn [pronounce Fewn to rhyme with “tune”] got his first training a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn [pronounce Fewn to rhyme with “tune”] got his first training among women. Who acts: Fionn, tune. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1

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Fionn \[pronounce Fewn to rhyme with “tune”\] got his first training among women.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, tune · **What happens:** pronounce, rhyme, get, train · **To what, where:** Fewn, first training

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, tune), 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:pg2892:14:1
# text = Fionn [pronounce Fewn to rhyme with “tune”] got his first training among women.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Fewn	Fewn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | infinitive | Fionn | Fewn |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent fewn=Result |
| 2 | **rhyme** | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tune | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with tune=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **get** | past | tune *not said here* | Fionn's first training |  |  |  | among women | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer training=Stimulus |
| 4 | **train** |  | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | nom training «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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