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title: For not only did he beat them at swimming, he beat their best at run… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For not only did he beat them at swimming, he beat their best at running and jumping, and when the sport degenerated into violence, as it was bound to, the roughness of Fionn would be ten times as rough as the roughness of the roughest rough they could put forward. Who acts: name, sport, roughness, 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19

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For not only did he beat them at swimming, he beat their best at running and jumping, and when the sport degenerated into violence, as it was bound to, the roughness of Fionn would be ten times as rough as the roughness of the roughest rough they could put forward.

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**Who acts:** name, sport, roughness, others · **What happens:** not beat, beat, run, jump, degenerate, bind · **To what, where:** others, swimming, best, violence, sport, ten times

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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, sport, roughness, others), 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:pg2892:21:19
# text = For not only did he beat them at swimming, he beat their best at running and jumping, and when the sport degenerated into violence, as it was bound to, the roughness of Fionn would be ten times as rough as the roughness of the roughest rough they could put forward.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	degenerated	degenerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	roughness	roughness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
40	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	roughness	roughness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	roughest	rough	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	50	amod	_	_
50	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	ccomp	_	_
54	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **beat** | past · do-support | name | others *= other* |  | swimming |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | past | name | others's best |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location good=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **jump** | gerund | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **degenerate** | participle | the sport |  |  | violence |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **bind** | past · passive |  | sport |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | would | the roughness of Fionn | ten times |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **put forward** | could | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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