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title: "Indeed it is, honest man," replied Oonagh; "God save you kindly--wo… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Indeed it is, honest man," replied Oonagh; "God save you kindly--won't you be sitting?" Who acts: invention, Indeed honest man, God, 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 66

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"Indeed it is, honest man," replied Oonagh; "God save you kindly--won't you be sitting?"

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**Who acts:** invention, Indeed honest man, God, you · **What happens:** be, reply, save, not sit · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (invention, Indeed honest man, God, 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:pg7885:22:66
# text = "Indeed it is, honest man," replied Oonagh; "God save you kindly--won't you be sitting?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | invention |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | Indeed honest man |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | you |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **sit** *in a quote* | future · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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