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title: In short, I have tried to put myself into the position of an _ollamh… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In short, I have tried to put myself into the position of an _ollamh_ or _sheenachie_ familiar with both forms of Gaelic, and anxious to put his stories in the best way to attract English children. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependenc
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 24

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In short, I have tried to put myself into the position of an \_ollamh\_ or \_sheenachie\_ familiar with both forms of Gaelic, and anxious to put his stories in the best way to attract English children.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** try, put, attract · **To what, where:** myself, position, stories, best way, English children

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to Alfred Nutt\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7885:2:24
# text = In short, I have tried to put myself into the position of an _ollamh_ or _sheenachie_ familiar with both forms of Gaelic, and anxious to put his stories in the best way to attract English children.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ollamh	ollamh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sheenachie	sheenachie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
22	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
41	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  | the position of a ollamh |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myself=Goal |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | Gaelic's stories |  | the best way |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme in way=Destination |
| 4 | **attract** | to-infinitive |  | English children |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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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