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title: But Deirdre did not wish to go with Ferchar Mac Ro, and she tried ev… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Deirdre did not wish to go with Ferchar Mac Ro, and she tried every prayer to turn Naois from going with him--she said: Who acts: Deirdre, scheme. 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 113

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But Deirdre did not wish to go with Ferchar Mac Ro, and she tried every prayer to turn Naois from going with him--she said:

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**Who acts:** Deirdre, scheme · **What happens:** not wish, go, try, turn, say · **To what, where:** prayer, Naois · **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 (Deirdre, scheme), 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:pg7885:13:113
# text = But Deirdre did not wish to go with Ferchar Mac Ro, and she tried every prayer to turn Naois from going with him--she said:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Ferchar	Ferchar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ro	Ro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | Deirdre |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Deirdre *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Ferchar Mac Ro | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ro=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **try** | past | scheme | every prayer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | scheme *not said here* | Naois |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme naois=Result |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | scheme *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with son | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | scheme |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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