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title: When he had finished Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac of the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had finished Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac of the Terrible Hand gave him rare and costly presents, so that every person wondered at their munificence, and even the poet, accustomed to the liberality of kings and princes, was astonished at his gifts. Who acts: Fergus, Fionn, person
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 39

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When he had finished Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac of the Terrible Hand gave him rare and costly presents, so that every person wondered at their munificence, and even the poet, accustomed to the liberality of kings and princes, was astonished at his gifts.

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**Who acts:** Fergus, Fionn, person · **What happens:** finish, give, wonder, accustom, be, gift · **To what, where:** rare presents, Fergus, poet, munificence, gifts

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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 (Fergus, Fionn, person), 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:pg2892:45:39
# text = When he had finished Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac of the Terrible Hand gave him rare and costly presents, so that every person wondered at their munificence, and even the poet, accustomed to the liberality of kings and princes, was astonished at his gifts.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Oisi’n	Oisi'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Lugac	Lugac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Terrible	Terrible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Hand	Hand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	munificence	munificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	liberality	liberality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | past | Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac of the Terrible Hand | rare presents | Fergus |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient present=Theme |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | every person | the poet |  | presents's munificence |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **accustom** | participle |  | the poet *not said here* |  |  |  | to the liberality of kings and princes | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | every person *not said here* |  |  | Fergus's gifts |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **gift** |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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