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title: Connaught is said to have been named after him, but this is scarcely… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Connaught is said to have been named after him, but this is scarcely consonant with Joyce's identification with Ptolemy's _Nagnatai_ (_Irish Local Names_, i. 75). Who acts: this, Joyce. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 21

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Connaught is said to have been named after him, but this is scarcely consonant with Joyce's identification with Ptolemy's \_Nagnatai\_ (\_Irish Local Names\_, i. 75).

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**Who acts:** this, Joyce · **What happens:** say, name, be, identify · **To what, where:** Connaught, scarcely consonant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Joyce), 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:pg7885:35:21
# text = Connaught is said to have been named after him, but this is scarcely consonant with Joyce's identification with Ptolemy's _Nagnatai_ (_Irish Local Names_, i. 75).
1	Connaught	Connaught	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Joyce	Joyce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	identification	identification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Ptolemy	Ptolemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Nagnatai	Nagnatai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	nsubj	_	_
34	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Connaught |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | after Connaught |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this | scarcely consonant |  |  |  | with Joyce's identification with Ptolemy's \_ | tree rules |
| 4 | **identify** |  | Joyce |  |  |  |  | with Ptolemy's \_ | nom identification «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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