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title: "It was I who won your daughter, not he; and if you don't believe me… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "It was I who won your daughter, not he; and if you don't believe me, the Gruagach Gaire is here himself. Who acts: reason, king, you, Gruagach Gaire. 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 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 89

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"It was I who won your daughter, not he; and if you don't believe me, the Gruagach Gaire is here himself.

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**Who acts:** reason, king, you, Gruagach Gaire · **What happens:** be, win, not believe · **To what, where:** king, daughter, man

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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 (reason, king, you, Gruagach Gaire), 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:pg7885:19:89
# text = "It was I who won your daughter, not he; and if you don't believe me, the Gruagach Gaire is here himself.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Gaire	Gaire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | reason | the king of Erin *= king* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** *in a quote* | past | the king of Erin *= king* | your daughter |  |  |  | man *obl* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **believe** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  | the king of Erin *= king* |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Gruagach Gaire | man |  | here |  |  | 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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