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title: It is to be remarked that "Gobborn Seer" is Irish (Goban Saor = free… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is to be remarked that "Gobborn Seer" is Irish (Goban Saor = free carpenter), and is the Irish equivalent of Wayland Smith, and occurs in several place names in Ireland. Who acts: Gobborn Seer. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer, with its dependency tree 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LIV. Gobborn Seer, sentence 3

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It is to be remarked that "Gobborn Seer" is Irish (Goban Saor = free carpenter), and is the Irish equivalent of Wayland Smith, and occurs in several place names in Ireland.

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**Who acts:** Gobborn Seer · **What happens:** remark, be, occur · **To what, where:** Source, Irish equivalent, several place names

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gobborn Seer), 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:pg14241:45:3
# text = It is to be remarked that "Gobborn Seer" is Irish (Goban Saor = free carpenter), and is the Irish equivalent of Wayland Smith, and occurs in several place names in Ireland.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Goban	Goban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	Saor	Saor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	punct	_	_
17	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	equivalent	equivalent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Wayland	Wayland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Source |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Gobborn Seer |  |  |  |  | Goban *obl*; irish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the Irish equivalent |  |  |  | of Wayland | tree rules |
| 4 | **occur** | present |  |  |  | several place names in Ireland |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in name=Location |

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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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