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title: I have inserted Deirdre's "Lament" from the _Book of Leinster_. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have inserted Deirdre's "Lament" from the _Book of Leinster_. Who acts: I, Deirdre. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 6

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I have inserted Deirdre's "Lament" from the \_Book of Leinster\_.

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**Who acts:** I, Deirdre · **What happens:** insert, lament · **To what, where:** Lament, \_ Book

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Deirdre), 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:pg7885:43:6
# text = I have inserted Deirdre's "Lament" from the _Book of Leinster_.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Lament	lament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insert** | present · perfect | I | Deirdre's Lament |  | the \_ Book of Leinster |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lament=Theme |
| 2 | **lament** *in a quote* |  | Deirdre |  |  |  |  |  | nom lament «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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