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title: At his Right hand his son Art, to be afterwards as famous as his fam… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At his Right hand his son Art, to be afterwards as famous as his famous father, took his seat, and on his left Goll mor mac Morna, chief of the Fianna of Ireland, had the seat of honour. Who acts: son. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 22

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At his Right hand his son Art, to be afterwards as famous as his famous father, took his seat, and on his left Goll mor mac Morna, chief of the Fianna of Ireland, had the seat of honour.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** be, take, have · **To what, where:** seat, Right hand, left Goll mor mac

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg2892:24:22
# text = At his Right hand his son Art, to be afterwards as famous as his famous father, took his seat, and on his left Goll mor mac Morna, chief of the Fianna of Ireland, had the seat of honour.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
26	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	mor	mor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
30	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as dais's famous father; afterwards, famous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | dais's son | dais's seat |  | dais's Right hand |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme at hand=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | past | dais's son *not said here* | the seat of honour |  | dais's left Goll mor mac |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |

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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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