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title: If you will not allow the bird that is being benumbed with cold, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will not allow the bird that is being benumbed with cold, and done to death with hunger, to be let in, I do not think much of your language or your faith. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 38

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If you will not allow the bird that is being benumbed with cold, and done to death with hunger, to be let in, I do not think much of your language or your faith.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not allow, benumb, do, let in, not think · **To what, where:** bird, much

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg7885:13:38
# text = If you will not allow the bird that is being benumbed with cold, and done to death with hunger, to be let in, I do not think much of your language or your faith.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	benumbed	benumb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  | the bird |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **benumb** | present · passive |  | the bird |  |  |  | with cold | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to death; with hunger | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let in** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I | much of your language or your faith |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=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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