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title: Of Fionn’s people eleven hundred of men and women were dead, while o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of Fionn’s people eleven hundred of men and women were dead, while of Goll’s people eleven men and fifty women were dead. Who acts: hundred men, eleven men. 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 90

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Of Fionn’s people eleven hundred of men and women were dead, while of Goll’s people eleven men and fifty women were dead.

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**Who acts:** hundred men, eleven men · **What happens:** be

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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 (hundred men, eleven men), 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:pg2892:46:90
# text = Of Fionn’s people eleven hundred of men and women were dead, while of Goll’s people eleven men and fifty women were dead.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
5	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
19	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | hundred men and women |  |  |  |  | of Fionn's people; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | eleven men and fifty women |  |  |  |  | of Goll's people; dead *property* | tree rules |

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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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