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description: It was, nevertheless, Goll’s forward and impish temper which commenced the brawl, and the verdict of time must be to exonerate Fionn and to let the blame go where it is merited. Who acts: side, impish temper, verdict, blame. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 56

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It was, nevertheless, Goll’s forward and impish temper which commenced the brawl, and the verdict of time must be to exonerate Fionn and to let the blame go where it is merited.

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**Who acts:** side, impish temper, verdict, blame · **What happens:** be, commence, let, go, merit · **To what, where:** brawl, blame, side

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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 (side, impish temper, verdict, blame), 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:pg2892:47:56
# text = It was, nevertheless, Goll’s forward and impish temper which commenced the brawl, and the verdict of time must be to exonerate Fionn and to let the blame go where it is merited.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	impish	impish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	brawl	brawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	exonerate	exonerate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
26	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	merited	merit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | side |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **commence** | past | impish temper | the brawl |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brawl=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | must | the verdict of time |  |  |  |  | exonerate *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | the verdict of time *not said here* | the blame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | the blame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **merit** | present · passive |  | side |  |  |  |  | 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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