--- title: “I should finish the fight I began,” Goll continued, “for it was I w… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I should finish the fight I began,” Goll continued, “for it was I who killed the two sisters of this valiant hag, and it is against me the feud lies.” Who acts: captain, Goll, fight, feud. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/) / 26 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 26 “I should finish the fight I began,” Goll continued, “for it was I who killed the two sisters of this valiant hag, and it is against me the feud lies.” **Who acts:** captain, Goll, fight, feud · **What happens:** finish, begin, continue, be, kill, lie · **To what, where:** fight, two sisters · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, Goll, fight, feud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:61:26 # text = “I should finish the fight I began,” Goll continued, “for it was I who killed the two sisters of this valiant hag, and it is against me the feud lies.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 26 valiant valiant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hag hag NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 feud feud NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** *in a quote* | should | the captain *= captain* | the fight | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the captain *= captain* | the fight *not said here* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | | 3 | **continue** | past | Goll | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | fight | | | | | for the captain *= captain* | tree rules | | 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | past | the captain *= captain* | the two sisters of this valiant hag | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | fight | | | | | against the captain *= captain* | tree rules | | 7 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | the feud | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/27/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/)