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title: "The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unl… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unlucky for us if we don't go, O Deirdre." Who acts: Connachar, day, we. 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 121

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"The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unlucky for us if we don't go, O Deirdre."

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**Who acts:** Connachar, day, we · **What happens:** send, be, not go · **To what, where:** invitation, 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, day, we), 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:pg7885:13:121
# text = "The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unlucky for us if we don't go, O Deirdre."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	_
24	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | past | Connachar | the invitation |  | Connachar's feast |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme to feast=Destination |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the day |  |  |  |  | for us; unlucky *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **go** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | we |  |  |  |  | of Deirdre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of deirdre=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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