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title: “I hold that clann-Morna were attacked first, and that they are to b… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I hold that clann-Morna were attacked first, and that they are to be free from payment of damages.” Who acts: judgement, Flahri. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 40

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“I hold that clann-Morna were attacked first, and that they are to be free from payment of damages.”

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**Who acts:** judgement, Flahri · **What happens:** hold, attack, be, pay · **To what, where:** clann Morna, payment, damages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (judgement, Flahri), 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:pg2892:47:40
# text = “I hold that clann-Morna were attacked first, and that they are to be free from payment of damages.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
5	clann	clann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	damages	damage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** *in a quote* | present | your judgement *= judgement* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | that clann Morna |  |  |  | first *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Flahri |  |  | payment of damages |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** *in a quote* |  |  | damages |  |  |  |  | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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