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title: He already venerated Finegas for his great learning, his poetic skil… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He already venerated Finegas for his great learning, his poetic skill, for an hundred reasons; but, looking on him as the ordained eater of the Salmon of Knowledge, he venerated him to the edge of measure. Who acts: poet. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its depe
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 38

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He already venerated Finegas for his great learning, his poetic skill, for an hundred reasons; but, looking on him as the ordained eater of the Salmon of Knowledge, he venerated him to the edge of measure.

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**Who acts:** poet · **What happens:** venerate, look, ordain · **To what, where:** Finegas

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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 (poet), 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:pg2892:22:38
# text = He already venerated Finegas for his great learning, his poetic skill, for an hundred reasons; but, looking on him as the ordained eater of the Salmon of Knowledge, he venerated him to the edge of measure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	venerated	venerate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	venerated	venerate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venerate** | past | poet | Finegas |  |  |  | for poet's great learning and poet's poetic skill and a hundred reasons | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer finegas=Stimulus for learning=Attribute |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on poet; as the ordained eater of the Salmon of Knowledge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme |
| 3 | **ordain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **venerate** | past | poet | Finegas |  |  |  | to the edge of measure | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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