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title: Fionn, with Cona’n the Swearer and the dogs Bran and Sceo’lan, was s… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn, with Cona’n the Swearer and the dogs Bran and Sceo’lan, was sitting on the hunting-mound at the top of Cesh Corran. Who acts: Fionn. 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 9

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Fionn, with Cona’n the Swearer and the dogs Bran and Sceo’lan, was sitting on the hunting-mound at the top of Cesh Corran.

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**Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** hunting mound

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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), 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:pg2892:56:9
# text = Fionn, with Cona’n the Swearer and the dogs Bran and Sceo’lan, was sitting on the hunting-mound at the top of Cesh Corran.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Swearer	Swearer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Cesh	Cesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	Corran	Corran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | Fionn and the dogs |  |  | the hunting mound |  | at the top of Cesh | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location |

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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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