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title: Connachar made up his mind to take Deirdre away by the sword whether… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Connachar made up his mind to take Deirdre away by the sword whether she was married to Naois or not. Who acts: Connachar. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 103

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Connachar made up his mind to take Deirdre away by the sword whether she was married to Naois or not.

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**Who acts:** Connachar · **What happens:** make up, take away, marry, mind · **To what, where:** mind, Deirdre, end, Naois

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Connachar), 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:pg7885:13:103
# text = Connachar made up his mind to take Deirdre away by the sword whether she was married to Naois or not.
1	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | Connachar | Connachar's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **take away** | to-infinitive | Connachar *not said here* | Deirdre |  |  |  | by the sword; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | past · passive |  | end | Naois |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to naois=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **mind** |  | Connachar |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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:** «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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