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title: As Conn was succeeded by his third son, Art Enear, Connla was either… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As Conn was succeeded by his third son, Art Enear, Connla was either slain or disappeared during his father's lifetime. Who acts: Art Enear, Connla. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 24

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As Conn was succeeded by his third son, Art Enear, Connla was either slain or disappeared during his father's lifetime.

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**Who acts:** Art Enear, Connla · **What happens:** succeed, be · **To what, where:** Conn

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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 (Art Enear, Connla), 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:pg7885:35:24
# text = As Conn was succeeded by his third son, Art Enear, Connla was either slain or disappeared during his father's lifetime.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Enear	Enear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
16	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past · passive | Art Enear | Conn |  |  |  | by Conn's third son | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Connla |  |  |  | during Conn's father's lifetime | slain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Connla *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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