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title: It is likely that Fionn looked for help to the people of the Shi’ th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is likely that Fionn looked for help to the people of the Shi’ themselves, for, through his mother, he belonged to the tribes of Dana, although, on the father’s side, his blood was well compounded with mortal clay. Who acts: lad, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 27

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It is likely that Fionn looked for help to the people of the Shi’ themselves, for, through his mother, he belonged to the tribes of Dana, although, on the father’s side, his blood was well compounded with mortal clay.

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**Who acts:** lad, Fionn · **What happens:** be, look, belong, compound · **To what, where:** side, blood

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, Fionn), 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:pg2892:25:27
# text = It is likely that Fionn looked for help to the people of the Shi’ themselves, for, through his mother, he belonged to the tribes of Dana, although, on the father’s side, his blood was well compounded with mortal clay.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Dana	Dana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
44	compounded	compound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | lad |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | for help to the people of the Shi | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for help=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | past | Fionn |  |  | the father's side |  | to the tribes of Dana | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **compound** | past · passive |  | Fionn's blood |  |  |  | with mortal clay; well *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with clay=Co-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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