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title: Troth, I hope, for the poor giant's sake, he won't meet with him, fo… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Troth, I hope, for the poor giant's sake, he won't meet with him, for if he does, Fin will make paste of him at once." Who acts: I, husband. 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 73

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Troth, I hope, for the poor giant's sake, he won't meet with him, for if he does, Fin will make paste of him at once."

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**Who acts:** I, husband · **What happens:** hope, not meet, do, fin, make · **To what, where:** Troth, paste

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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, husband), 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:pg7885:22:73
# text = Troth, I hope, for the poor giant's sake, he won't meet with him, for if he does, Fin will make paste of him at once."
1	Troth	troth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Fin	fin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
28	paste	paste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | present | I | Troth |  |  |  | for the poor giant's sake | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sake=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **meet** | future | husband |  |  |  |  | with giant | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fin** | infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | future |  | paste of husband |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paste=Product |

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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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