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title: They came to Fergus Fionnliath’s stronghold, and Uct Dealv demanded… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They came to Fergus Fionnliath’s stronghold, and Uct Dealv demanded admittance. Who acts: terms, Uct. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23

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They came to Fergus Fionnliath’s stronghold, and Uct Dealv demanded admittance.

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**Who acts:** terms, Uct · **What happens:** come, demand · **To what, where:** stronghold, admittance

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terms, Uct), 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:pg2892:30:23
# text = They came to Fergus Fionnliath’s stronghold, and Uct Dealv demanded admittance.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Fionnliath	Fionnliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Uct	Uct	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	admittance	admittance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | terms *= term* |  |  | Fergus's stronghold |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stronghold=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Uct | admittance |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme admittance=Precondition |

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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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