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title: And Duanan Gacha Druid dried up the flood from the plain and the thr… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Duanan Gacha Druid dried up the flood from the plain and the three sons of Uisnech were lying together dead, without breath of life, side by side on the green meadow plain and Deirdre bending above showering down her tears. Who acts: Duanan Gacha, three sons, green meadow plain. A sentence of «C
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 192

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And Duanan Gacha Druid dried up the flood from the plain and the three sons of Uisnech were lying together dead, without breath of life, side by side on the green meadow plain and Deirdre bending above showering down her tears.

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**Who acts:** Duanan Gacha, three sons, green meadow plain · **What happens:** dry up, lie, bend, shower down · **To what, where:** flood, plain, tears

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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 (Duanan Gacha, three sons, green meadow plain), 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:pg7885:13:192
# text = And Duanan Gacha Druid dried up the flood from the plain and the three sons of Uisnech were lying together dead, without breath of life, side by side on the green meadow plain and Deirdre bending above showering down her tears.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Duanan	Duanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Gacha	Gacha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
39	above	above	ADP	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	showering	shower	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | past | Duanan Gacha | the flood |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient flood=Result |
| 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | the three sons of Uisnech |  |  | the plain |  | without breath of life and side by side on the green meadow plain and Deirdre; dead, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bend** | gerund | the green meadow plain and Deirdre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shower down** | gerund | the green meadow plain and Deirdre *not said here* | Gacha's tears |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=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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