--- title: At that news the men of the household picked up clubs and cudgels an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At that news the men of the household picked up clubs and cudgels and every kind of thing that was near, and made a violent and woeful attack on Tibraide’s men The King of Leinster came in then, and when he was told Tibraide’ was Mongan he attacked them as well, and it was with difficulty that Tibra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/88/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter XVII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/88/) / 25 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 25 At that news the men of the household picked up clubs and cudgels and every kind of thing that was near, and made a violent and woeful attack on Tibraide’s men The King of Leinster came in then, and when he was told Tibraide’ was Mongan he attacked them as well, and it was with difficulty that Tibraide’ got away to Cell Camain with nine of his men and they all wounded. **Who acts:** men, thing, violent attack, Tibraide Mongan, attack, Tibraide · **What happens:** pick up, club, be, make, come in, tell · **To what, where:** Tibraide, Tibraide Mongan, men, Camain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, thing, violent attack, Tibraide Mongan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:88:25 # text = At that news the men of the household picked up clubs and cudgels and every kind of thing that was near, and made a violent and woeful attack on Tibraide’s men The King of Leinster came in then, and when he was told Tibraide’ was Mongan he attacked them as well, and it was with difficulty that Tibraide’ got away to Cell Camain with nine of his men and they all wounded. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 clubs club NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cudgels cudgel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 near near ADV RB _ 18 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 woeful woeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 Tibraide Tibraide PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Leinster Leinster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 39 in in ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 when when SCONJ WRB _ 46 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 47 Tibraide Tibraide PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 53 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 52 advmod _ _ 55 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 54 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 58 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 59 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 cop _ _ 60 with with ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 62 that that SCONJ IN _ 65 mark _ _ 63 Tibraide Tibraide PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ’ ' PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 65 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 advcl _ _ 66 away away ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 67 to to PART TO _ 68 mark _ _ 68 Cell cell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 xcomp _ _ 69 Camain Camain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 70 with with ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 71 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 68 obl _ _ 72 of of ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 74 nmod:poss _ _ 74 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 71 nmod _ _ 75 and and CCONJ CC _ 78 cc _ _ 76 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 78 nsubj _ _ 77 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 78 det _ _ 78 wounded wounded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | participle | | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **club** | | the men of the household | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | thing | | | | | near *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past | the men of the household *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come in** | past | a violent attack on Tibraide's men | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | Tibraide | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **is a** | past | | Tibraide Mongan | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **attack** | past | Tibraide Mongan | men *= man* | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 9 | **is** | past | attack | | | | | with difficulty | tree rules | | 10 | **get away** | past | Tibraide | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **cell** | to-infinitive | Tibraide *not said here* | Camain | | | | with nine of Tibraide's men | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/88/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/88/26/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/88/)