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description: Thereafter many boasted of having slain the Fomori, but the maiden believed them not till at last by a stratagem she recognises Cuchulain. Who acts: maiden, Fomori, daughter. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 29

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Thereafter many boasted of having slain the Fomori, but the maiden believed them not till at last by a stratagem she recognises Cuchulain.

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**Who acts:** maiden, Fomori, daughter · **What happens:** boast, have, not believe, till, recognise · **To what, where:** many, slain, last, Cuchulain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, Fomori, daughter), 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:pg7885:51:29
# text = Thereafter many boasted of having slain the Fomori, but the maiden believed them not till at last by a stratagem she recognises Cuchulain.
1	Thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	boasted	boast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fomori	Fomori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
16	till	till	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	recognises	recognise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | many |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | slain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **believe** | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **till** | present | Fomori |  |  | last |  | by a stratagem | tree rules |
| 5 | **recognise** | present | daughter | Cuchulain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cuchulain=Stimulus |

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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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