--- title: Fionn, with all desires, had the lasting one, for he would go anywhe… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Fionn, with all desires, had the lasting one, for he would go anywhere and forsake anything for wisdom; and it was in search of this that he went to the place where Finegas lived on a bank of the Boyne Water. Who acts: Fionn, wisdom, Finegas. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/22/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter IX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/22/) / 2 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 2 Fionn, with all desires, had the lasting one, for he would go anywhere and forsake anything for wisdom; and it was in search of this that he went to the place where Finegas lived on a bank of the Boyne Water. **Who acts:** Fionn, wisdom, Finegas · **What happens:** have, go, forsake, be, live · **To what, where:** lasting one, anything, search, bank This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, wisdom, Finegas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:22:2 # text = Fionn, with all desires, had the lasting one, for he would go anywhere and forsake anything for wisdom; and it was in search of this that he went to the place where Finegas lived on a bank of the Boyne Water. 1 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 desires desire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 lasting lasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 16 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 forsake forsake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 19 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nmod _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 37 Finegas Finegas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 Boyne Boyne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Fionn | the lasting one | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 2 | **go** | would | Fionn | | | | | anywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **forsake** | infinitive | Fionn *not said here* | anything | | | | for wisdom | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | wisdom | | | search | | of this | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | past | Fionn | search *not said here* | | | | to the place | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | past | Finegas | | | a bank of the Boyne Water | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/22/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/22/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/22/)