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title: Of Morna himself, the huge-shouldered, stern-eyed, violent Connachtm… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of Morna himself, the huge-shouldered, stern-eyed, violent Connachtman; and of his sons--young Goll Mor mac Morna in particular, as huge-shouldered as his father, as fierce in the onset, but merry-eyed when the other was grim, and bubbling with a laughter that made men forgive even his butcheries. W
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

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Of Morna himself, the huge-shouldered, stern-eyed, violent Connachtman; and of his sons--young Goll Mor mac Morna in particular, as huge-shouldered as his father, as fierce in the onset, but merry-eyed when the other was grim, and bubbling with a laughter that made men forgive even his butcheries.

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**Who acts:** other, laughter, men · **What happens:** shoulder, be, bubble, make, forgive · **To what, where:** young Goll, men, butcheries

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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 (other, laughter, men), 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:pg2892:16:5
# text = Of Morna himself, the huge-shouldered, stern-eyed, violent Connachtman; and of his sons--young Goll Mor mac Morna in particular, as huge-shouldered as his father, as fierce in the onset, but merry-eyed when the other was grim, and bubbling with a laughter that made men forgive even his butcheries.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Connachtman	Connachtman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	onset	onset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	conj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
60	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	_
61	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obj	_	_
62	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	xcomp	_	_
63	even	even	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	butcheries	butchery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoulder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shoulder** | participle |  | young Goll in particular *not said here* |  |  |  | as Morna's father | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the other |  |  |  |  | grim *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bubble** | gerund | the other *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a laughter | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with laughter=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | a laughter | men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forgive** | infinitive | men *not said here* | Morna's butcheries |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butchery=Theme |

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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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