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description: This happened at the parting of the day and night in the morning twilight time, and Naois said they must go away, leave that house, and return to Alba. Who acts: This, Naois, day. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 165

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This happened at the parting of the day and night in the morning twilight time, and Naois said they must go away, leave that house, and return to Alba.

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**Who acts:** This, Naois, day · **What happens:** happen, say, go away, leave, return, part · **To what, where:** parting, house, Alba · **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 (This, Naois, day), 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:pg7885:13:165
# text = This happened at the parting of the day and night in the morning twilight time, and Naois said they must go away, leave that house, and return to Alba.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Alba	Alba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | This |  |  | the parting of the day and night in the twilight time |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at parting=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Naois |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go away** | must | Naois |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | Naois *not said here* | that house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | infinitive |  |  | Alba |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to alba=Result |
| 6 | **part** |  | the day and night in the twilight time |  |  |  |  |  | nom parting «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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