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title: And it was not right of Goll to take by force the position of greate… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was not right of Goll to take by force the position of greatest gift-giver of the Fianna, for there was never in the world one greater at giving gifts, or giving battle, or making poems than Fionn was. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its d
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 53

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And it was not right of Goll to take by force the position of greatest gift-giver of the Fianna, for there was never in the world one greater at giving gifts, or giving battle, or making poems than Fionn was.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** not be, take, give, make · **To what, where:** position, world, gifts, battle, poems

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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 (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:1502`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:47:53
# text = And it was not right of Goll to take by force the position of greatest gift-giver of the Fianna, for there was never in the world one greater at giving gifts, or giving battle, or making poems than Fionn was.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
31	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
32	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	advcl	_	_
34	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	_
38	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	_
42	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of Goll; right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | the position of greatest gift giver of the Fianna |  |  |  | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **be** | past | one |  |  | the world; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | one *not said here* | gifts |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | one *not said here* | battle |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | one *not said here* | poems |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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