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title: With the love that Connachar had for her, he wanted to marry Deirdre… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With the love that Connachar had for her, he wanted to marry Deirdre right off there and then, will she nill she marry him. Who acts: Connachar, woman. 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 74

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With the love that Connachar had for her, he wanted to marry Deirdre right off there and then, will she nill she marry him.

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**Who acts:** Connachar, woman · **What happens:** have, want, marry, nill · **To what, where:** love, Deirdre, Ulster, Connachar

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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 (Connachar, woman), 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:pg7885:13:74
# text = With the love that Connachar had for her, he wanted to marry Deirdre right off there and then, will she nill she marry him.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	off	off	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	nill	nill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Connachar | the love |  |  |  | for woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 2 | **want** | past | Connachar |  |  |  |  | with the love | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Connachar *not said here* | Deirdre |  | there |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Patient |
| 4 | **nill** | future | woman | Ulster |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | Connachar |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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