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title: This gentleman’s name was Fergus Fionnliath, and his stronghold was… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This gentleman’s name was Fergus Fionnliath, and his stronghold was near the harbour of Galway. Who acts: name, stronghold, gentleman. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5

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This gentleman’s name was Fergus Fionnliath, and his stronghold was near the harbour of Galway.

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**Who acts:** name, stronghold, gentleman · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** Fergus, harbour

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, stronghold, gentleman), 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:pg2892:28:5
# text = This gentleman’s name was Fergus Fionnliath, and his stronghold was near the harbour of Galway.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	Fionnliath	Fionnliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Galway	Galway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this gentleman's name | Fergus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | man's stronghold |  |  | the harbour |  | of Galway | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | this gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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