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title: Surely it is a bounden duty of those who are in the position to put… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely it is a bounden duty of those who are in the position to put on record any such utterances of the folk-imagination of the Celts before it is too late. Who acts: country. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 32

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Surely it is a bounden duty of those who are in the position to put on record any such utterances of the folk-imagination of the Celts before it is too late.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** be, put, utter, imagine · **To what, where:** bounden duty, position, such utterances, record, folk imagination, Celts

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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 (country), 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:pg7885:43:32
# text = Surely it is a bounden duty of those who are in the position to put on record any such utterances of the folk-imagination of the Celts before it is too late.
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bounden	bounden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	utterances	utterance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | country | a bounden duty |  |  |  | of those; surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the position |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | country *not said here* | any such utterances of the folk imagination of the Celts |  | record |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme on record=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | country |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **utter** |  |  | the folk imagination of the Celts |  |  |  |  | nom utterance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **imagine** |  |  | the Celts |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition 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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