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title: It's said there's one predestinate To be his mortal foe; But that ma… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It's said there's one predestinate To be his mortal foe; But that man is yet unborn, And long may it be so.” Who acts: one, man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 14

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It's said there's one predestinate To be his mortal foe; But that man is yet unborn, And long may it be so.”

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**Who acts:** one, man · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Roman, mortal foe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, man), 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:pg7439:26:14
# text = It's said there's one predestinate To be his mortal foe; But that man is yet unborn, And long may it be so.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	predestinate	predestinate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	To	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	unborn	unborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Roman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | one |  |  | there |  | predestinate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | Ettin's mortal foe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | that man |  |  |  | yet | unborn *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | that man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | infinitive | that man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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