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title: If I don't treat him to as smart feeding as he's got this many a day… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If I don't treat him to as smart feeding as he's got this many a day, never trust Oonagh again. Who acts: I, Oonagh, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 51

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If I don't treat him to as smart feeding as he's got this many a day, never trust Oonagh again.

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**Who acts:** I, Oonagh, you · **What happens:** not treat, get, not trust · **To what, where:** Oonagh, many

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Oonagh, you), 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:pg7885:22:51
# text = If I don't treat him to as smart feeding as he's got this many a day, never trust Oonagh again.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **treat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I | Oonagh |  |  |  | to smart feeding | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme to feeding=be' |
| 2 | **get** | present · passive | Oonagh | many |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **trust** | imperative | you *not said here* | Oonagh |  |  | again |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oonagh=Theme |

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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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