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title: I trust I shall be forgiven by Celtic scholars for the changes I hav… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I trust I shall be forgiven by Celtic scholars for the changes I have had to make to effect this end. Who acts: I, Celtic scholars. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 25

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I trust I shall be forgiven by Celtic scholars for the changes I have had to make to effect this end.

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**Who acts:** I, Celtic scholars · **What happens:** trust, forgive, have, make · **To what, where:** I, changes, effect

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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, Celtic scholars), 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:pg7885:2:25
# text = I trust I shall be forgiven by Celtic scholars for the changes I have had to make to effect this end.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	forgiven	forgive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **forgive** | shall · passive | Celtic scholars | I |  |  |  | for the changes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for change=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | I | the changes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | effect |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |

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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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