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title: He hunted for the King of Finntraigh, and it soon grew evident that… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He hunted for the King of Finntraigh, and it soon grew evident that there was no hunter in his service to equal Fionn. Who acts: Fionn, kingdom. 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 24

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He hunted for the King of Finntraigh, and it soon grew evident that there was no hunter in his service to equal Fionn.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, kingdom · **What happens:** hunt, grow, be, equal, service · **To what, where:** service, evident hunter, Fionn

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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 (Fionn, kingdom), 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:pg2892:21:24
# text = He hunted for the King of Finntraigh, and it soon grew evident that there was no hunter in his service to equal Fionn.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Finntraigh	Finntraigh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
24	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | for the King of Finntraigh | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for king=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | kingdom |  |  | Fionn's service |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in service=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | no evident hunter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **equal** | to-infinitive | kingdom *not said here* | Fionn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **service** |  | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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