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title: He sent word far and wide through Erin all to his kinspeople to come… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He sent word far and wide through Erin all to his kinspeople to come to the feast. 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 105

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He sent word far and wide through Erin all to his kinspeople to come to the feast.

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**Who acts:** Connachar · **What happens:** send, come · **To what, where:** word, Erin, feast

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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:pg7885:13:105
# text = He sent word far and wide through Erin all to his kinspeople to come to the feast.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	kinspeople	kinspeople	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Connachar | word |  | Erin |  | to Connachar's kinspeople; far *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to kinspeople=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Connachar *not said here* |  |  | the feast |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial\_Location |

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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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