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title: Said the golden pigeon to him, "If you remembered when I cleared the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the golden pigeon to him, "If you remembered when I cleared the byre, you would not eat that without giving me a share." Who acts: golden pigeon, son. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 256

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Said the golden pigeon to him, "If you remembered when I cleared the byre, you would not eat that without giving me a share."

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**Who acts:** golden pigeon, son · **What happens:** say, remember, clear, not eat, give · **To what, where:** son, byre, that, share, golden pigeon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden pigeon, son), 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:pg7885:31:256
# text = Said the golden pigeon to him, "If you remembered when I cleared the byre, you would not eat that without giving me a share."
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the golden pigeon |  | son |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **clear** *in a quote* | past | the golden pigeon *= pigeon* | the byre |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent byre=Source |
| 4 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | would | son | that |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | son *not said here* | a share | the golden pigeon *= pigeon* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient share=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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