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title: As soon as the sons of Uisnech landed in Erin, Ferchar Mac Ro sent w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the sons of Uisnech landed in Erin, Ferchar Mac Ro sent word to Connachar, king of Ulster, that the men whom he wanted were come, and let him now show kindness to them. " Who acts: sons, Mac, son, men. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dep
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 133

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As soon as the sons of Uisnech landed in Erin, Ferchar Mac Ro sent word to Connachar, king of Ulster, that the men whom he wanted were come, and let him now show kindness to them. "

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**Who acts:** sons, Mac, son, men · **What happens:** land, send, want, come, let, show · **To what, where:** Erin, word, Connachar, men, son, kindness

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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 (sons, Mac, son, men), 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:pg7885:13:133
# text = As soon as the sons of Uisnech landed in Erin, Ferchar Mac Ro sent word to Connachar, king of Ulster, that the men whom he wanted were come, and let him now show kindness to them. "
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Ferchar	Ferchar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Ro	Ro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
38	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | the sons of Uisnech |  |  | Erin and Ferchar |  | soon *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in erin=Destination |
| 2 | **send** | past | Mac | word | Connachar |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to connachar=Destination |
| 3 | **want** | past | son | the men |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the men |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | son |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | present |  | kindness | King |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Topic to they=Recipient |

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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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