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title: How their voices would have become a chant as feat was added to feat… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: How their voices would have become a chant as feat was added to feat, glory piled on glory. Who acts: voices, chant. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14

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How their voices would have become a chant as feat was added to feat, glory piled on glory.

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**Who acts:** voices, chant · **What happens:** become, add, pile · **To what, where:** chant, feat, glory

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voices, chant), 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:pg2892:16:14
# text = How their voices would have become a chant as feat was added to feat, glory piled on glory.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would · perfect | ladies's voices | a chant |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | a chant *not said here* | feat |  |  |  | to feat | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to feat=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **pile** | participle |  | glory *not said here* |  | glory |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on glory=Destination |

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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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