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title: Then these two sets of four fought togethor with every warlike court… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then these two sets of four fought togethor with every warlike courtesy but with every warlike severity, and at the end of that combat there was but one man standing, and the other seven lay tossed in death. Who acts: two sets, one man. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 25

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Then these two sets of four fought togethor with every warlike courtesy but with every warlike severity, and at the end of that combat there was but one man standing, and the other seven lay tossed in death.

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**Who acts:** two sets, one man · **What happens:** fight, be, stand, toss · **To what, where:** togethor, end, other seven, death

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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 (two sets, one man), 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:pg2892:42:25
# text = Then these two sets of four fought togethor with every warlike courtesy but with every warlike severity, and at the end of that combat there was but one man standing, and the other seven lay tossed in death.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	togethor	togethor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	severity	severity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	tossed	toss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | this two sets of four | togethor |  |  | then | with every warlike courtesy but every warlike severity | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent togethor=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there | at the end of that combat |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | one man |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **toss** | present · passive |  | the other seven |  | death |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in death=Destination |

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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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