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title: If they be, I will take her out with edge of blade and point of swor… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 138

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If they be, I will take her out with edge of blade and point of sword, and if not, let Naois, son of Uisnech, have her for himself," said Connachar.

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**Who acts:** I, Connachar · **What happens:** be, let, have, say, point · **To what, where:** Naois, Lochlin, sword · **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 (I, Connachar), 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:pg7885:13:138
# text = If they be, I will take her out with edge of blade and point of sword, and if not, let Naois, son of Uisnech, have her for himself," said Connachar.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future · infinitive | I |  |  |  |  | with edge of blade and point of sword; take *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | Naois |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naois=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | Lochlin |  |  |  | for son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Connachar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **point** |  |  | sword |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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