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title: “Cona’n, my dear love, give the warning whistle so that the Fianna w… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Cona’n, my dear love, give the warning whistle so that the Fianna will keep out of this place.” Who acts: Cona’n, Fianna, my. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 14

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“Cona’n, my dear love, give the warning whistle so that the Fianna will keep out of this place.”

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**Who acts:** Cona’n, Fianna, my · **What happens:** give, keep out, love · **To what, where:** warning whistle, place

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cona’n, Fianna, my), 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:pg2892:59:14
# text = “Cona’n, my dear love, give the warning whistle so that the Fianna will keep out of this place.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cona’n	cona'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Cona’n | the warning whistle |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme |
| 2 | **keep out** *in a quote* | future | the Fianna | this place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **love** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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