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title: Thus did Fin, through the wit and invention of Oonagh, his wife, suc… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus did Fin, through the wit and invention of Oonagh, his wife, succeed in overcoming his enemy by cunning, which he never could have done by force. Who acts: you, Cucullin. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 129

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Thus did Fin, through the wit and invention of Oonagh, his wife, succeed in overcoming his enemy by cunning, which he never could have done by force.

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**Who acts:** you, Cucullin · **What happens:** do, succeed, overcome, not do, invent · **To what, where:** Fin, wit, enemy, cunning, Oonagh

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cucullin), 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:pg7885:22:129
# text = Thus did Fin, through the wit and invention of Oonagh, his wife, succeed in overcoming his enemy by cunning, which he never could have done by force.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
3	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	overcoming	overcome	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | you *not said here* | Fin |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Eventuality |
| 2 | **succeed** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the wit and invention of Oonagh and Cucullin's wife |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **overcome** | gerund | you *not said here* | Cucullin's enemy |  |  |  | by cunning | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enemy=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **do** | could · perfect | Cucullin | cunning |  |  |  | by force | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 5 | **invent** |  |  | Oonagh |  |  |  |  | nom invention «cognition 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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