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title: Once, as they rested on a chase, a debate arose among the Fianna-Fin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, as they rested on a chase, a debate arose among the Fianna-Finn as to what was the finest music in the world. Who acts: limbs, debate. 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 37

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Once, as they rested on a chase, a debate arose among the Fianna-Finn as to what was the finest music in the world.

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**Who acts:** limbs, debate · **What happens:** rest, arise, be · **To what, where:** chase, Fianna Finn, world

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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 (limbs, debate), 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:pg2892:21:37
# text = Once, as they rested on a chase, a debate arose among the Fianna-Finn as to what was the finest music in the world.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | limbs *= limb* |  |  | a chase |  | once *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chase=Location |
| 2 | **arise** | past | a debate |  |  | the Fianna Finn |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among finn=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the world |  | as the finest music | tree rules |

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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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