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title: When Naois heard his prayer, he gave forth the piercing sigh of deat… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Naois heard his prayer, he gave forth the piercing sigh of death, and asked Allen to lay hold of him and he would bring him to land. Who acts: Naois, Arden. 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 184

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When Naois heard his prayer, he gave forth the piercing sigh of death, and asked Allen to lay hold of him and he would bring him to land.

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**Who acts:** Naois, Arden · **What happens:** hear, give, pierce, ask, lay, bring · **To what, where:** prayer, piercing sigh, Allen, hold, house, death

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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 (Naois, Arden), 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:pg7885:13:184
# text = When Naois heard his prayer, he gave forth the piercing sigh of death, and asked Allen to lay hold of him and he would bring him to land.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	piercing	pierce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Naois | Arden's prayer |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | Arden | the piercing sigh of death |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 3 | **pierce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Arden *not said here* |  | Allen |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent allen=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Arden *not said here* | hold of Arden |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 6 | **bring** | would | Arden | house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **land** | to-infinitive | Arden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **pray** |  | Arden |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **sigh** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **hold** |  |  | Arden |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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