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title: EVENING was drawing nigh, and the Fianna-Finn had decided to hunt no… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: EVENING was drawing nigh, and the Fianna-Finn had decided to hunt no more that day. Who acts: Fianna Finn. 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 1

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EVENING was drawing nigh, and the Fianna-Finn had decided to hunt no more that day.

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**Who acts:** Fianna Finn · **What happens:** draw, decide, hunt · **To what, where:** more

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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 (Fianna Finn), 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:pg2892:33:1
# text = EVENING was drawing nigh, and the Fianna-Finn had decided to hunt no more that day.
1	EVENING	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** | past · perfect | the Fianna Finn |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hunt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Fianna Finn *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |

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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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