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title: But Fionn affirmed that he would make no peace with clann-Morna unti… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Fionn affirmed that he would make no peace with clann-Morna until the matter had been judged by the king, Cormac mac Art, and by his daughter Ailve, and by his son Cairbre of Ana Life’ and by Fintan the chief poet. Who acts: Fionn, king. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapt
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 87

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But Fionn affirmed that he would make no peace with clann-Morna until the matter had been judged by the king, Cormac mac Art, and by his daughter Ailve, and by his son Cairbre of Ana Life’ and by Fintan the chief poet.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, king · **What happens:** affirm, make, judge · **To what, where:** Ailve, peace, matter

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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 (Fionn, king), 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:pg2892:46:87
# text = But Fionn affirmed that he would make no peace with clann-Morna until the matter had been judged by the king, Cormac mac Art, and by his daughter Ailve, and by his son Cairbre of Ana Life’ and by Fintan the chief poet.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	affirmed	affirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	clann	clann	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Cormac	Cormac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Ailve	Ailve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
38	Cairbre	Cairbre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Fintan	Fintan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affirm** | past | Fionn | Ailve by Fionn's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | would | Fionn | no peace |  |  |  | with clann Morna | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product |
| 3 | **judge** | past · perfect · passive | the king | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent subject=Value |

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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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