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title: But, if I did, no man else can see her unless he get directions from… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, if I did, no man else can see her unless he get directions from me as to where she is dwelling." Who acts: I, man, Erin. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 60

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But, if I did, no man else can see her unless he get directions from me as to where she is dwelling."

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**Who acts:** I, man, Erin · **What happens:** do, see, get, dwell · **To what, where:** Erin, directions

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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 (I, man, Erin), 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:pg7885:13:60
# text = But, if I did, no man else can see her unless he get directions from me as to where she is dwelling."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | can | no man | Erin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | man | directions |  |  |  | from me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent direction=Theme from i=Source |
| 4 | **dwell** | present · progressive | Erin |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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