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title: I have also dropped a part of Guleesh's name: in the original he is… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have also dropped a part of Guleesh's name: in the original he is "Guleesh na guss dhu," Guleesh of the black feet, because he never washed them; nothing turns on this in the present form of the story, but one cannot but suspect it was of importance in the original form. Who acts: I, Nutt, nothing
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, II. Guleesh., sentence 5

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I have also dropped a part of Guleesh's name: in the original he is "Guleesh na guss dhu," Guleesh of the black feet, because he never washed them; nothing turns on this in the present form of the story, but one cannot but suspect it was of importance in the original form.

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**Who acts:** I, Nutt, nothing, story, Guleesh · **What happens:** drop, be, not wash, turn, suspect, name · **To what, where:** part, Guleesh, feet, this, original form, story

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Guleesh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Nutt, nothing, story), 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:pg7885:36:5
# text = I have also dropped a part of Guleesh's name: in the original he is "Guleesh na guss dhu," Guleesh of the black feet, because he never washed them; nothing turns on this in the present form of the story, but one cannot but suspect it was of importance in the original form.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	na	na	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	_
20	guss	guss	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat	_	_
21	dhu	dhu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	nsubj	_	_
37	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	suspect	suspect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	ccomp	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present · perfect | I | a part of Guleesh's name |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Nutt | Guleesh and Guleesh of the black feet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **wash** | past | Nutt | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | present | nothing |  |  | this |  | in the present form of the story | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on this=Source in form=Trajectory |
| 5 | **suspect** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | story |  |  | the original form |  | of importance | tree rules |
| 7 | **name** |  | Guleesh |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | the story |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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