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title: “In running alone,” Fionn continued thoughtfully, “we have a notable… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “In running alone,” Fionn continued thoughtfully, “we have a notable champion, Caelte mac Rona’n.” Who acts: Fionn, we. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 41

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“In running alone,” Fionn continued thoughtfully, “we have a notable champion, Caelte mac Rona’n.”

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**Who acts:** Fionn, we · **What happens:** run, continue, have · **To what, where:** notable champion

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, we), 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:pg2892:48:41
# text = “In running alone,” Fionn continued thoughtfully, “we have a notable champion, Caelte mac Rona’n.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	Rona’n	Rona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *in a quote* | gerund | Fionn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | thoughtfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | a notable champion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=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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