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title: Conn was greatly perturbed, but, as in duty bound, he placed the boy… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Conn was greatly perturbed, but, as in duty bound, he placed the boy under the various protections that were in his oath, and, with the courage of one who has no more to gain or lose, he placed Segda, furthermore, under the protection of all the men of Ireland. Who acts: Conn, various protections, c
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 5

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Conn was greatly perturbed, but, as in duty bound, he placed the boy under the various protections that were in his oath, and, with the courage of one who has no more to gain or lose, he placed Segda, furthermore, under the protection of all the men of Ireland.

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**Who acts:** Conn, various protections, courage · **What happens:** perturb, place, be, have, gain, lose · **To what, where:** Conn, boy, various protections, oath, more, Segda

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, various protections, courage), 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:pg2892:68:5
# text = Conn was greatly perturbed, but, as in duty bound, he placed the boy under the various protections that were in his oath, and, with the courage of one who has no more to gain or lose, he placed Segda, furthermore, under the protection of all the men of Ireland.
1	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	perturbed	perturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	protections	protection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
45	Segda	Segda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	furthermore	furthermore	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	under	under	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	55	det:predet	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perturb** | past · passive |  | Conn |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **place** | past | Conn | the boy |  | the various protections |  | as duty bound | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme under protection=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | the various protections |  |  | Conn's oath |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | no more |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 5 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **lose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **place** | past | the courage of one | Segda |  | the protection of all men of Ireland |  | furthermore *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent segda=Theme under protection=Destination |
| 8 | **protect** |  |  | all men of Ireland |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act 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:** «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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