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title: I have abridged somewhat, made the sons of Fergus all faithful inste… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have abridged somewhat, made the sons of Fergus all faithful instead of two traitors, and omitted an incident in the house of the wild men called here "strangers." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 3

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I have abridged somewhat, made the sons of Fergus all faithful instead of two traitors, and omitted an incident in the house of the wild men called here "strangers."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** abridge, make, omit, call · **To what, where:** sons, incident, wild men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7885:43:3
# text = I have abridged somewhat, made the sons of Fergus all faithful instead of two traitors, and omitted an incident in the house of the wild men called here "strangers."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	abridged	abridge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	traitors	traitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	omitted	omit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abridge** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | the sons of Fergus |  |  |  | instead two traitors; all faithful *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset son=Product |
| 3 | **omit** | past |  | a incident |  |  |  | strangers *obl* | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | the wild men *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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