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title: “Make your choice,” said Conn to Goll Mor; “you will leave Ireland,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Make your choice,” said Conn to Goll Mor; “you will leave Ireland, or you will place your hand in the hand of this champion and be his man.” Who acts: Conn, Goll. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 37

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“Make your choice,” said Conn to Goll Mor; “you will leave Ireland, or you will place your hand in the hand of this champion and be his man.”

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**Who acts:** Conn, Goll · **What happens:** make, say, leave, place, be · **To what, where:** choice, Goll, Ireland, hand, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, Goll), 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:pg2892:27:37
# text = “Make your choice,” said Conn to Goll Mor; “you will leave Ireland, or you will place your hand in the hand of this champion and be his man.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your choice |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Conn |  | Goll |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to goll=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | future | Goll | Ireland |  | the hand of this champion |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme in hand=Location |
| 4 | **place** *in a quote* | future | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | Goll *not said here* | Ireland's man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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