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title: Dear is the land, the land over there, Alba full of woods and lakes;… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dear is the land, the land over there, Alba full of woods and lakes; Bitter to my heart is leaving thee, But I go away with Naois. Who acts: Bitter, I. 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 130

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Dear is the land, the land over there, Alba full of woods and lakes; Bitter to my heart is leaving thee, But I go away with Naois.

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**Who acts:** Bitter, I · **What happens:** be, leave, go away · **To what, where:** Dear land, thee

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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 (Bitter, I), 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:pg7885:13:130
# text = Dear is the land, the land over there, Alba full of woods and lakes; Bitter to my heart is leaving thee, But I go away with Naois.
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Alba	Alba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Dear land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | present · progressive | Bitter to my heart | thee |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **go away** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with Naois; away *property* | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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