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title: He killed Fiachna Finn in that battle, and be crowned himself King o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He killed Fiachna Finn in that battle, and be crowned himself King of Ulster. Who acts: Mongan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19

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He killed Fiachna Finn in that battle, and be crowned himself King of Ulster.

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**Who acts:** Mongan · **What happens:** kill, crown · **To what, where:** Fiachna Finn, battle, Mongan

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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:pg2892:79:19
# text = He killed Fiachna Finn in that battle, and be crowned himself King of Ulster.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Mongan | Fiachna Finn |  | that battle |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finn=Theme |
| 2 | **crown** | infinitive · passive | Mongan *not said here* | Mongan |  |  |  | King of Ulster *obl* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: himself=Theme |

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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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