--- title: He stated that Fionn’s brother Cairell struck Cona’n mac Morna, that… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He stated that Fionn’s brother Cairell struck Cona’n mac Morna, that Goll’s two sons came to help Cona’n, that Oscar went to help Cairell, and with that Fionn’s people and the clann-Morna rose at each other, and what had started as a brawl ended as a battle with eleven hundred of Fionn’s people and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/) / 15 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15 He stated that Fionn’s brother Cairell struck Cona’n mac Morna, that Goll’s two sons came to help Cona’n, that Oscar went to help Cairell, and with that Fionn’s people and the clann-Morna rose at each other, and what had started as a brawl ended as a battle with eleven hundred of Fionn’s people and sixty-one of Goll’s people dead. **Who acts:** Goll, brother, two sons, Oscar, people · **What happens:** state, strike, come, help, go, rise · **To what, where:** Cona’n mac, Cona’n, Cairell, each, brawl, people 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 (Goll, brother, two sons, Oscar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:47:15 # text = He stated that Fionn’s brother Cairell struck Cona’n mac Morna, that Goll’s two sons came to help Cona’n, that Oscar went to help Cairell, and with that Fionn’s people and the clann-Morna rose at each other, and what had started as a brawl ended as a battle with eleven hundred of Fionn’s people and sixty-one of Goll’s people dead. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stated state VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Cairell Cairell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 8 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 Cona’n Cona'n PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 mac Mac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 Morna Morna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 Cona’n Cona'n PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 Oscar Oscar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 Cairell Cairell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 clann clann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Morna Morna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 41 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 41 obl _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 50 as as ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 brawl brawl NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 ended end VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 acl _ _ 54 as as ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 57 with with ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 59 compound _ _ 59 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 56 nmod _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ’s 's PART POS _ 61 case _ _ 63 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 65 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 67 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 66 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 63 conj _ _ 68 of of ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 69 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ’s 's PART POS _ 69 case _ _ 71 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 nmod _ _ 72 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | past | Goll | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **strike** | past | Fionn's brother | Cona’n mac | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mac=Instrument | | 3 | **come** | past | Goll's two sons | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Goll's two sons *not said here* | | Cona’n | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cona'n=Beneficiary | | 5 | **go** | past | Oscar | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | Oscar *not said here* | | Cairell | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairell=Beneficiary | | 7 | **rise** | past | that Fionn's people and the clann Morna | | | each | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at each=Location | | 8 | **start** | past · perfect · passive | | | | | | as a brawl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 9 | **end** | participle | | a brawl *not said here* | | | | as a battle with eleven hundred of Fionn's people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 10 | **battle** | | | Fionn's people | | | | | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/)