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title: Deuce run to Lusk wid 'em! and if any one can save us from 'em, it i… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Deuce run to Lusk wid 'em! and if any one can save us from 'em, it is this gentleman with the goat-skin. Who acts: one, run. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 63

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Deuce run to Lusk wid 'em! and if any one can save us from 'em, it is this gentleman with the goat-skin.

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**Who acts:** one, run · **What happens:** save, be · **To what, where:** us, gentleman

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, run), 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:pg7885:33:63
# text = Deuce run to Lusk wid 'em! and if any one can save us from 'em, it is this gentleman with the goat-skin.
1	Deuce	deuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Lusk	Lusk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | can | any one |  | us |  |  | from 'em *= they* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent we=Theme from they=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | present | run | this gentleman |  |  |  | with the goat skin | tree rules |

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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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