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title: Those who had been the champions before he came would marshal each o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who had been the champions before he came would marshal each other, and, by social pressure, would muster all the others against him; so that in the end not a friendly eye was turned on Fionn in that assembly. Who acts: name, champions, social pressure. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by Jam
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 18

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Those who had been the champions before he came would marshal each other, and, by social pressure, would muster all the others against him; so that in the end not a friendly eye was turned on Fionn in that assembly.

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**Who acts:** name, champions, social pressure · **What happens:** be, come, marshal, muster, turn · **To what, where:** champions, each, others, end

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, champions, social pressure), 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:pg2892:21:18
# text = Those who had been the champions before he came would marshal each other, and, by social pressure, would muster all the others against him; so that in the end not a friendly eye was turned on Fionn in that assembly.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	marshal	marshal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obj	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	muster	muster	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	39	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | participle |  | that champions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | name |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **marshal** | would | that champions | each |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **muster** | would | social pressure | all others |  |  |  | against name | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | past · passive | that champions *not said here* |  |  |  | in the end  a friendly eye | on Fionn; in that assembly | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: in end=Source on fionn=Trajectory in assembly=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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