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title: "Well," said the hunter, "I may do that--keep my mouth shut and my t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," said the hunter, "I may do that--keep my mouth shut and my tongue quiet, since I came to the house and received hospitality from you; but by the hand of thy father and grandfather, and by your own two hands, if some other of the people of the world saw this beauteous creature you have here h
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 44

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"Well," said the hunter, "I may do that--keep my mouth shut and my tongue quiet, since I came to the house and received hospitality from you; but by the hand of thy father and grandfather, and by your own two hands, if some other of the people of the world saw this beauteous creature you have here hid away, they would not long leave her with you, I swear."

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**Who acts:** hunter, you, creature · **What happens:** say, do, keep, come, receive, see · **To what, where:** that, mouth, house, hospitality, beauteous creature, tongue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hunter, you, creature), 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:pg7885:13:44
# text = "Well," said the hunter, "I may do that--keep my mouth shut and my tongue quiet, since I came to the house and received hospitality from you; but by the hand of thy father and grandfather, and by your own two hands, if some other of the people of the world saw this beauteous creature you have here hid away, they would not long leave her with you, I swear."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
49	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
62	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
63	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	65	det	_	_
64	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
66	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	acl:relcl	_	_
68	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	69	advmod	_	_
69	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	advcl	_	_
70	away	away	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
72	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	76	nsubj	_	_
73	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	76	aux	_	_
74	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	75	advmod	_	_
75	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	76	advmod	_	_
76	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	conj	_	_
77	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	76	obj	_	_
78	with	with	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
79	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	76	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
81	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	82	nsubj	_	_
82	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	82	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	82	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | may | the hunter *= hunter* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | the hunter *= hunter* *not said here* | my mouth |  |  |  | shut *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the hunter *= hunter* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **receive** *in a quote* | past | the hunter *= hunter* *not said here* | hospitality |  |  |  | from you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hospitality=Theme from you=Source |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | past |  | this beauteous creature |  |  |  | by the hand of thy father and grandfather and your own two hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | this beauteous creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |
| 8 | **hide away** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  | away *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **leave** *in a quote* | would | creature |  | tongue |  |  | with you; long *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with you=Theme |
| 10 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | the hunter *= hunter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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