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title: "We want," says Jack, "what I'm sure you haven't to give us--and tha… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "We want," says Jack, "what I'm sure you haven't to give us--and that is, common civility." Who acts: We, Jack, you, that. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 96

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"We want," says Jack, "what I'm sure you haven't to give us--and that is, common civility."

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**Who acts:** We, Jack, you, that · **What happens:** want, say, be, not have, give · **To what, where:** us, common civility · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Jack, you, that), 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:pg7885:18:96
# text = "We want," says Jack, "what I'm sure you haven't to give us--and that is, common civility."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	civility	civility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Jack |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | common civility |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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