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title: The gloomy king challenged him to combat also, and in his honour Art… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The gloomy king challenged him to combat also, and in his honour Art put on the battle harness which he had brought from Ireland. Who acts: gloomy king. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 33

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The gloomy king challenged him to combat also, and in his honour Art put on the battle harness which he had brought from Ireland.

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**Who acts:** gloomy king · **What happens:** challenge, combat, put, bring · **To what, where:** Delvcaem, honour Art, battle harness, Ireland

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gloomy king), 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:pg2892:71:33
# text = The gloomy king challenged him to combat also, and in his honour Art put on the battle harness which he had brought from Ireland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	combat	combat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **challenge** | past | the gloomy king | Delvcaem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **combat** | to-infinitive | the gloomy king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | participle | the gloomy king *not said here* |  |  | King's honour Art |  | on the battle harness | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on harness=Destination |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the battle harness |  | Ireland |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from ireland=Initial\_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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