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title: For what he could not effect by arms Morgan would endeavour by guile… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For what he could not effect by arms Morgan would endeavour by guile, so that while Art drove at him or parried a crafty blow, the shape of Morgan changed before his eyes, and the monstrous king was having at him in another form, and from a new direction. Who acts: King, Art, Morgan, monstrous king.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 37

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For what he could not effect by arms Morgan would endeavour by guile, so that while Art drove at him or parried a crafty blow, the shape of Morgan changed before his eyes, and the monstrous king was having at him in another form, and from a new direction.

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**Who acts:** King, Art, Morgan, monstrous king, arms · **What happens:** endeavour, drive, parry, change, have, effect · **To what, where:** crafty blow, form

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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 (King, Art, Morgan, monstrous 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:pg2892:71:37
# text = For what he could not effect by arms Morgan would endeavour by guile, so that while Art drove at him or parried a crafty blow, the shape of Morgan changed before his eyes, and the monstrous king was having at him in another form, and from a new direction.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	guile	guile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	parried	parry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	det	_	_
47	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endeavour** | would | King |  |  |  |  | by guile | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | past | Art |  |  |  |  | at King | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **parry** | past | Art *not said here* | a crafty blow and the shape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | past | Morgan |  |  |  | before King's eyes |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past · progressive | the monstrous king |  |  | another form |  | at Art | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **effect** |  | arms |  |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: by=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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