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title: BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did the same for Cona’n. Who acts: Conaran. 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 1

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BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did the same for Cona’n.

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**Who acts:** Conaran · **What happens:** change, do, sight · **To what, where:** sight, same, eyes

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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 (Conaran), 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:pg2892:58:1
# text = BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did the same for Cona’n.
1	BY	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	Conaran	Conaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Conaran | the sight of Fionn's eyes |  |  |  | by his arts | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | Conaran | the same |  |  |  | for Cona’n | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | Fionn's eyes |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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