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title: I have discussed this matter elsewhere[1] with all the solemnity its… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have discussed this matter elsewhere[1] with all the solemnity its importance deserves, and cannot attempt further to defend my position here. Who acts: I, importance. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 32

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I have discussed this matter elsewhere\[1\] with all the solemnity its importance deserves, and cannot attempt further to defend my position here.

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**Who acts:** I, importance · **What happens:** discuss, deserve, not attempt, defend · **To what, where:** matter, position

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, importance), 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:pg14241:4:32
# text = I have discussed this matter elsewhere[1] with all the solemnity its importance deserves, and cannot attempt further to defend my position here.
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	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	solemnity	solemnity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	further	further	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | this matter |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Topic |
| 2 | **deserve** | present | solemnity's importance |  |  |  |  | with all solemnity | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **attempt** | can | solemnity's importance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **defend** | to-infinitive | solemnity's importance *not said here* | my position |  | here |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Beneficiary |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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