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title: With every tide I go along the river upwards, until I come near to t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With every tide I go along the river upwards, until I come near to the walls of Gloucester, and there have I found such wrong as I never found elsewhere; and to the end that ye may give credence thereto, let one of you go thither upon each of my two shoulders." Who acts: I, that, you. A sentence of 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 138

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With every tide I go along the river upwards, until I come near to the walls of Gloucester, and there have I found such wrong as I never found elsewhere; and to the end that ye may give credence thereto, let one of you go thither upon each of my two shoulders."

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**Who acts:** I, that, you · **What happens:** go, come, have, find, not find, give · **To what, where:** river, walls, credence, end, one, each

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, 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:pg7885:17:138
# text = With every tide I go along the river upwards, until I come near to the walls of Gloucester, and there have I found such wrong as I never found elsewhere; and to the end that ye may give credence thereto, let one of you go thither upon each of my two shoulders."
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	near	near	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Gloucester	Gloucester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	such	such	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
40	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
42	credence	credence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obj	_	_
47	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
50	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | I |  |  | the river |  | with every tide; upwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | I |  |  | the walls of Gloucester |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | I *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | past | I |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **find** | past | I |  |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | may | that | credence | the end |  |  | thereto *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credence=Theme to end=Recipient |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive | that *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 8 | **go** | present | you |  |  | each |  | thither *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon each=Location |

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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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