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title: Triumphant Fionn, who had dealt death to a god, and to whom death wo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Triumphant Fionn, who had dealt death to a god, and to whom death would be dealt, and who is now dead! A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 31

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Triumphant Fionn, who had dealt death to a god, and to whom death would be dealt, and who is now dead!

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**What happens:** deal, be · **To what, where:** Triumphant Fionn, death

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2892:27:31
# text = Triumphant Fionn, who had dealt death to a god, and to whom death would be dealt, and who is now dead!
1	Triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | past · perfect · passive |  | Triumphant Fionn |  |  |  | to a god | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient death=Theme |
| 2 | **deal** | would · passive |  | death |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to whom=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | now | dead *property* | 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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