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title: He desired his look-out men to set a watch on the sons of Conall, an… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He desired his look-out men to set a watch on the sons of Conall, and to give them meat. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 55

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He desired his look-out men to set a watch on the sons of Conall, and to give them meat.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** desire, set, give · **To what, where:** out men, watch, meat, sons

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg7885:9:55
# text = He desired his look-out men to set a watch on the sons of Conall, and to give them meat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Conall	Conall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | king | king's out men |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | a watch |  |  |  | on the sons of Conall | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on son=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | meat | sons *= son* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meat=Theme |

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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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