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title: "You nasty brute," said the cowboy, coming down to him from the tree… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You nasty brute," said the cowboy, coming down to him from the tree, "'tis little I care for you;" and then they went at each other. Who acts: You, nasty brute, pieces. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 24

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"You nasty brute," said the cowboy, coming down to him from the tree, "'tis little I care for you;" and then they went at each other.

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**Who acts:** You, nasty brute, pieces · **What happens:** brute, say, come down, care, go · **To what, where:** cowboy, brute, tree, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, nasty brute, pieces), 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:pg7885:19:24
# text = "You nasty brute," said the cowboy, coming down to him from the tree, "'tis little I care for you;" and then they went at each other.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brute	brute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tis	tis	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	32	obl	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brute** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | nasty brute | the cowboy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come down** | gerund | nasty brute *not said here* |  | brute | the tree |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location from tree=Destination |
| 4 | **care** *in a quote* | present | nasty brute *= brute* |  |  |  |  | tis little; for you | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  | each | then |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at 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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