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title: He looked appealingly at his brother Art og mac Morna, and that powe… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked appealingly at his brother Art og mac Morna, and that powerful champion flew to his aid and wounded Oscar. Who acts: Oscar, powerful champion. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 57

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He looked appealingly at his brother Art og mac Morna, and that powerful champion flew to his aid and wounded Oscar.

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**Who acts:** Oscar, powerful champion · **What happens:** look, fly, wound · **To what, where:** Oscar

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oscar, powerful champion), 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:pg2892:46:57
# text = He looked appealingly at his brother Art og mac Morna, and that powerful champion flew to his aid and wounded Oscar.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	appealingly	appealingly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	og	og	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Oscar |  |  |  |  | at Oscar's brother and Art og mac; appealingly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at brother=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | that powerful champion |  |  |  |  | to Oscar's aid *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aid=Result |
| 3 | **wound** | past | that powerful champion *not said here* | Oscar |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus oscar=Experiencer |

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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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