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title: Deirdre was unwilling to leave Alba, but she went with Naois. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Deirdre was unwilling to leave Alba, but she went with Naois. Who acts: Deirdre, Alba. 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 128

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Deirdre was unwilling to leave Alba, but she went with Naois.

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**Who acts:** Deirdre, Alba · **What happens:** be, leave, go · **To what, where:** Alba

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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, Alba), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:725`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:13:128
# text = Deirdre was unwilling to leave Alba, but she went with Naois.
1	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Alba	Alba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Deirdre |  |  |  |  | unwilling *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Deirdre *not said here* | Alba |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alba=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Alba |  |  |  |  | with Naois | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with naois=Beneficiary |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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