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title: At times, for the weapon must change with the enemy, they fought wit… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At times, for the weapon must change with the enemy, they fought with their foreheads as two giant stags, and the crash of their monstrous onslaught rolled and lingered on the air long after their skulls had parted. Who acts: weapon, words, monstrous onslaught. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by J
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 40

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At times, for the weapon must change with the enemy, they fought with their foreheads as two giant stags, and the crash of their monstrous onslaught rolled and lingered on the air long after their skulls had parted.

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**Who acts:** weapon, words, monstrous onslaught · **What happens:** change, fight, roll, linger, part, crash · **To what, where:** crash, air, skulls

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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 (weapon, words, monstrous onslaught), 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:pg2892:71:40
# text = At times, for the weapon must change with the enemy, they fought with their foreheads as two giant stags, and the crash of their monstrous onslaught rolled and lingered on the air long after their skulls had parted.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stags	stag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	onslaught	onslaught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	lingered	linger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
37	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | must | the weapon |  |  |  | time | with the enemy | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | with words's foreheads; as two giant stags | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with forehead=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **roll** | participle · passive |  | the crash of words's monstrous onslaught |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 4 | **linger** | participle |  |  |  | the air |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Location |
| 5 | **part** | past · perfect · passive |  | words's skulls |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **crash** |  | words's monstrous onslaught |  |  |  |  |  | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=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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