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title: He would have seen Fiacuil’s great spear that had thirty rivets of A… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He would have seen Fiacuil’s great spear that had thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket, and that had to be kept wrapped up and tied down so that it would not kill people out of mere spitefulness. Who acts: man, great spear, that, spear. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Cha
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 7

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He would have seen Fiacuil’s great spear that had thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket, and that had to be kept wrapped up and tied down so that it would not kill people out of mere spitefulness.

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**Who acts:** man, great spear, that, spear · **What happens:** see, have, keep, wrap up, tie down, not kill · **To what, where:** great spear, thirty rivets, people, mere spitefulness

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, great spear, that, spear), 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:pg2892:20:7
# text = He would have seen Fiacuil’s great spear that had thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket, and that had to be kept wrapped up and tied down so that it would not kill people out of mere spitefulness.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Fiacuil	Fiacuil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	rivets	rivet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	spitefulness	spitefulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | would · perfect | man | Fiacuil's great spear |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Fiacuil's great spear | thirty rivets of Arabian gold in gold's socket |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive · passive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wrap up** | participle | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tie down** | participle | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **kill** | would | spear | people |  | mere spitefulness |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent people=Theme out spitefulness=Initial\_Location |

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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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