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title: I have not scrupled to retain a Celtic turn of speech, and here and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have not scrupled to retain a Celtic turn of speech, and here and there a Celtic word, which I have _not_ explained within brackets--a practice to be abhorred of all good men. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 35

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I have not scrupled to retain a Celtic turn of speech, and here and there a Celtic word, which I have \_not\_ explained within brackets--a practice to be abhorred of all good men.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not scruple, retain, have, not explain, abhor · **To what, where:** Celtic word, Celtic turn

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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:pg7885:2:35
# text = I have not scrupled to retain a Celtic turn of speech, and here and there a Celtic word, which I have _not_ explained within brackets--a practice to be abhorred of all good men.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	scrupled	scruple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	_
27	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
28	within	within	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	brackets	bracket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	abhorred	abhor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **scruple** | present · perfect | I | a Celtic word |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a Celtic turn of speech |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | a Celtic word |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within brackets | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **abhor** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of all good men | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

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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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