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title: “If there was any way of warning the Fianna not to come here,” Fionn… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If there was any way of warning the Fianna not to come here,” Fionn murmured. Who acts: way, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11

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“If there was any way of warning the Fianna not to come here,” Fionn murmured.

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**Who acts:** way, Fionn · **What happens:** be, warn, not come, murmur · **To what, where:** way, Fianna · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, 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:pg2892:59:11
# text = “If there was any way of warning the Fianna not to come here,” Fionn murmured.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	warning	warn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | any way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* *in a quote* | gerund | any way *not said here* |  | the Fianna |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent fianna=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | any way *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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