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title: That kingdom may have been thus called from Fionn himself and would… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That kingdom may have been thus called from Fionn himself and would have been known by another name when he arrived there. Who acts: name, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 23

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That kingdom may have been thus called from Fionn himself and would have been known by another name when he arrived there.

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**Who acts:** name, Fionn · **What happens:** call, know, arrive · **To what, where:** kingdom, Fionn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Fionn), 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:pg2892:21:23
# text = That kingdom may have been thus called from Fionn himself and would have been known by another name when he arrived there.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | may · perfect · passive |  | that kingdom |  | Fionn |  | Fionn *obl*; thus *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from fionn=Source |
| 2 | **know** | would · perfect · passive | another name |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | Fionn |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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