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title: He did so; and Connachar said to Ferchar, "Tell Naois, son of Uisnec… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He did so; and Connachar said to Ferchar, "Tell Naois, son of Uisnech, that I am setting forth a great and gleeful feast to my friends and kinspeople throughout the wide extent of Erin all, and that I shall not have rest by day nor sleep by night if he and Allen and Arden be not partakers of the fea
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 107

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He did so; and Connachar said to Ferchar, "Tell Naois, son of Uisnech, that I am setting forth a great and gleeful feast to my friends and kinspeople throughout the wide extent of Erin all, and that I shall not have rest by day nor sleep by night if he and Allen and Arden be not partakers of the feast."

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**Who acts:** Connachar · **What happens:** do, say, tell, set, not rest, not be · **To what, where:** Ferchar, Naois, son, great feast, wide extent, partakers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg7885:13:107
# text = He did so; and Connachar said to Ferchar, "Tell Naois, son of Uisnech, that I am setting forth a great and gleeful feast to my friends and kinspeople throughout the wide extent of Erin all, and that I shall not have rest by day nor sleep by night if he and Allen and Arden be not partakers of the feast."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ferchar	Ferchar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	gleeful	gleeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	kinspeople	kinspeople	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux	_	_
48	rest	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	52	cc	_	_
52	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
55	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	Arden	Arden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	_
61	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	cop	_	_
62	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	63	advmod	_	_
63	partakers	partaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	advcl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Connachar |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Connachar |  | Ferchar |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ferchar=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Naois | son of Uisnech |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient naois=Topic |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Connachar | a great feast |  | the wide extent of Erin |  | to my friends and kinspeople; all, forth *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feast=Theme throughout extent=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **rest** *in a quote* | shall · perfect | Connachar |  |  |  | day; night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | Connachar | partakers |  |  |  | of the feast | tree rules |
| 7 | **extend** *in a quote* |  |  | Erin |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state 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:** «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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