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title: Now Finnian could not abide that any person should resist both the G… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Finnian could not abide that any person should resist both the Gospel and himself, and he proceeded to force the stronghold by peaceful but powerful methods. Who acts: Finnian, person. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

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Now Finnian could not abide that any person should resist both the Gospel and himself, and he proceeded to force the stronghold by peaceful but powerful methods.

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**Who acts:** Finnian, person · **What happens:** not abide, resist, proceed, force · **To what, where:** Gospel, stronghold

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, person), 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:pg2892:3:1
# text = Now Finnian could not abide that any person should resist both the Gospel and himself, and he proceeded to force the stronghold by peaceful but powerful methods.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **abide** | could | Finnian |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resist** | should | any person | the Gospel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **proceed** | past | Finnian |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **force** | to-infinitive | Finnian *not said here* | the stronghold |  |  |  | by peaceful methods | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stronghold=Recipient |

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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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