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title: "Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsa… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it." Who acts: Malcolm, you. 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 9

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"Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it."

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**Who acts:** Malcolm, you · **What happens:** not mind, take, soothsaie, have, be, do · **To what, where:** little

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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 (Malcolm, you), 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:pg7885:13:9
# text = "Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	soothsaying	soothsaie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	soothsaying	soothsaie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Malcolm |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | Malcolm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **soothsaie** *in a quote* | gerund | Malcolm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from you | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **soothsaie** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Malcolm | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | little |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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