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title: Nor did they fight in silence as was their custom and training, but… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor did they fight in silence as was their custom and training, but between each onslaught the great heads were uplifted, and they pealed loudly, mournfully, urgently, for their master. Who acts: Nor, hounds. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree an
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 12

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Nor did they fight in silence as was their custom and training, but between each onslaught the great heads were uplifted, and they pealed loudly, mournfully, urgently, for their master.

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**Who acts:** Nor, hounds · **What happens:** fight, be, uplift, peal · **To what, where:** silence, great heads

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, hounds), 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:pg2892:37:12
# text = Nor did they fight in silence as was their custom and training, but between each onslaught the great heads were uplifted, and they pealed loudly, mournfully, urgently, for their master.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	onslaught	onslaught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	uplifted	uplift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	pealed	peal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
27	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	urgently	urgently	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · do-support | Nor | silence |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as hounds's custom and training | tree rules |
| 3 | **uplift** | past · passive |  | the great heads |  |  |  | between each onslaught | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **peal** | past | hounds *= hound* |  |  |  |  | loudly, mournfully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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