--- title: I love Connla, and now I call him away to the Plain of Pleasure, Moy… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I love Connla, and now I call him away to the Plain of Pleasure, Moy Mell, where Boadag is king for aye, nor has there been complaint or sorrow in that land since he has held the kingship. Who acts: I, Maiden. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:4:12 # text = I love Connla, and now I call him away to the Plain of Pleasure, Moy Mell, where Boadag is king for aye, nor has there been complaint or sorrow in that land since he has held the kingship. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Connla Connla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Plain Plain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Pleasure Pleasure PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Moy Moy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Mell Mell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 21 Boadag Boadag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 30 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 cop _ _ 31 complaint complaint NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 37 since since SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 kingship kingship NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | I | Connla | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer connla=Stimulus | | 2 | **call away** *speech: assert* | present | I | Maiden | the Plain of Pleasure and Moy Mell | | now | away *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to plain=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | | Boadag king | | | | for aye | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | participle | | complaint or sorrow | | that land; there | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hold** | present · perfect | Maiden | the kingship | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingship=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/13/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/)