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title: _Remarks_.--The Macdonald of Saddell Castle was a very great man ind… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--The Macdonald of Saddell Castle was a very great man indeed. Who acts: Macdonald. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 7

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\_Remarks\_.--The Macdonald of Saddell Castle was a very great man indeed.

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**Who acts:** Macdonald · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** great man

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Macdonald), 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:pg7885:42:7
# text = _Remarks_.--The Macdonald of Saddell Castle was a very great man indeed.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Macdonald	Macdonald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Saddell	Saddell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Macdonald of Saddell Castle | a great man |  |  |  | indeed *property* | 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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