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title: There was at that time another giant, named Cucullin--some say he wa… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was at that time another giant, named Cucullin--some say he was Irish, and some say he was Scotch--but whether Scotch or Irish, sorrow doubt of it but he was a targer. Who acts: named Cucullin, Cucullin, some. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 7

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There was at that time another giant, named Cucullin--some say he was Irish, and some say he was Scotch--but whether Scotch or Irish, sorrow doubt of it but he was a targer.

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**Who acts:** named Cucullin, Cucullin, some · **What happens:** be, name, say, doubt · **To what, where:** time, targer, doubt · **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 (named Cucullin, Cucullin, some), 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:pg7885:22:7
# text = There was at that time another giant, named Cucullin--some say he was Irish, and some say he was Scotch--but whether Scotch or Irish, sorrow doubt of it but he was a targer.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	Scotch	scotch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	targer	targer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | another named Cucullin | that time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | irish *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | scotch *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | Cucullin | a targer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **doubt** |  |  | doubt |  |  |  |  | nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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