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title: He had beaten the disease of Mugain; he had beaten his own pupil the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had beaten the disease of Mugain; he had beaten his own pupil the great Colm Cille; he beat Tuan also, and just as the latter’s door had opened to the persistent stranger, so his heart opened, and Finnian marched there to do the will of God, and his own will. Who acts: master, heart, Finnian. A s
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 35

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He had beaten the disease of Mugain; he had beaten his own pupil the great Colm Cille; he beat Tuan also, and just as the latter’s door had opened to the persistent stranger, so his heart opened, and Finnian marched there to do the will of God, and his own will.

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**Who acts:** master, heart, Finnian · **What happens:** beat, open, march, do · **To what, where:** disease, own pupil, Tuan, latter door, persistent stranger, own

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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 (master, heart, Finnian), 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:pg2892:3:35
# text = He had beaten the disease of Mugain; he had beaten his own pupil the great Colm Cille; he beat Tuan also, and just as the latter’s door had opened to the persistent stranger, so his heart opened, and Finnian marched there to do the will of God, and his own will.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mugain	Mugain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Colm	Colm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	Cille	Cille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	persistent	persistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl	_	_
58	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past · perfect | master | the disease of Mugain |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | past · perfect | master | master's own pupil |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pupil=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | past | master | Tuan |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tuan=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | past · perfect · passive |  | the latter door | the persistent stranger |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to stranger=Recipient |
| 5 | **open** | past | master's heart | master's own |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **march** | past | Finnian |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Finnian *not said here* | the God |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Eventuality |

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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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