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title: Well, I suppose, before they were married, Tom got some man, like Pa… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, I suppose, before they were married, Tom got some man, like Pat Mara of Tomenine, to learn him the "principles of politeness," fluxions, gunnery, and fortification, decimal fractions, practice, and the rule of three direct, the way he'd be able to keep up a conversation with the royal family. 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 98

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Well, I suppose, before they were married, Tom got some man, like Pat Mara of Tomenine, to learn him the "principles of politeness," fluxions, gunnery, and fortification, decimal fractions, practice, and the rule of three direct, the way he'd be able to keep up a conversation with the royal family.

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**Who acts:** I, Tom · **What happens:** suppose, marry, get, learn, be, keep up · **To what, where:** Danes, man, Tom, way, conversation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Tom), 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:pg7885:33:98
# text = Well, I suppose, before they were married, Tom got some man, like Pat Mara of Tomenine, to learn him the "principles of politeness," fluxions, gunnery, and fortification, decimal fractions, practice, and the rule of three direct, the way he'd be able to keep up a conversation with the royal family.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Pat	Pat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Mara	Mara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tomenine	Tomenine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	principles	principle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	politeness	politeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fluxions	fluxion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	gunnery	gunnery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fortification	fortification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	decimal	decimal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fractions	fraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
56	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	acl:relcl	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	_
59	up	up	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | past · passive |  | Danes *= dane* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | past | Tom | some man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Tom |  |  |  | fluxions and gunnery *obl* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | Tom | the way *not said here* |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep up** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | a conversation |  |  |  | with the royal family | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent conversation=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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