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title: With him by my side I could venture into regions where the non-Celt… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With him by my side I could venture into regions where the non-Celt wanders at his own risk. Who acts: I, non-Celt, Mr.. 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 52

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With him by my side I could venture into regions where the non-Celt wanders at his own risk.

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**Who acts:** I, non-Celt, Mr. · **What happens:** venture, wander, risk · **To what, where:** regions, own risk

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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, non-Celt, Mr.), 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:pg7885:2:52
# text = With him by my side I could venture into regions where the non-Celt wanders at his own risk.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	non-Celt	non-celt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | could | I |  |  | regions |  | with Mr.; by my side | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wander** | present | the non-Celt |  |  | Mr.'s own risk |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at risk=Trajectory |
| 3 | **risk** |  | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom risk «state transitive»: poss=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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