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title: In addition to the Council which was being held, there were games an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In addition to the Council which was being held, there were games and tournaments and brilliant deployments of troops, and universal feastings and enjoyments. Who acts: games. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2

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In addition to the Council which was being held, there were games and tournaments and brilliant deployments of troops, and universal feastings and enjoyments.

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**Who acts:** games · **What happens:** hold, be, deploy · **To what, where:** Council, addition, troops

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (games), 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:pg2892:74:2
# text = In addition to the Council which was being held, there were games and tournaments and brilliant deployments of troops, and universal feastings and enjoyments.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tournaments	tournament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deployments	deployment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	feastings	feasting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	enjoyments	enjoyment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the Council |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | games and tournaments and brilliant deployments of troops |  |  | addition to the Council; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in addition=Location |
| 3 | **deploy** |  |  | troops |  |  |  |  | nom deployment «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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