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title: The man of the house said to me: 'There are bundles of rushes at the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The man of the house said to me: 'There are bundles of rushes at the end of the room, go there and sit down with your men!' Who acts: man, bundles. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 49

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The man of the house said to me: 'There are bundles of rushes at the end of the room, go there and sit down with your men!'

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**Who acts:** man, bundles · **What happens:** say, be, go, sit down · **To what, where:** me, end · **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 (man, bundles), 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:pg7885:19:49
# text = The man of the house said to me: 'There are bundles of rushes at the end of the room, go there and sit down with your men!'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
13	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man of the house |  | me |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to i=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **does** | present | bundles of rushes |  |  | there | at the end of the room |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with your men | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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