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title: The Shee an Gannon was born in the morning, named at noon, and went… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shee an Gannon was born in the morning, named at noon, and went in the evening to ask his daughter of the king of Erin. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 1

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The Shee an Gannon was born in the morning, named at noon, and went in the evening to ask his daughter of the king of Erin.

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**What happens:** bear, name, go, ask · **To what, where:** Shee, daughter

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7885:19:1
# text = The Shee an Gannon was born in the morning, named at noon, and went in the evening to ask his daughter of the king of Erin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shee	Shee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Gannon	Gannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the Shee |  |  | morning |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  | noon |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | evening |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  | his daughter of the king of Erin |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |

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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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