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title: I observe from the proceedings of the recent Eisteddfod that the bar… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I observe from the proceedings of the recent Eisteddfod that the bardic name of Mr. W. Abraham, M.P., is 'Mabon.' Who acts: I, bardic name, recent Eisteddfod. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 35

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I observe from the proceedings of the recent Eisteddfod that the bardic name of Mr. W. Abraham, M.P., is 'Mabon.'

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**Who acts:** I, bardic name, recent Eisteddfod · **What happens:** observe, be, proceed, name · **To what, where:** proceedings, Mabon, W.

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bardic name, recent Eisteddfod), 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:pg7885:47:35
# text = I observe from the proceedings of the recent Eisteddfod that the bardic name of Mr. W. Abraham, M.P., is 'Mabon.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	observe	observe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Eisteddfod	Eisteddfod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	M.P	M.P	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | present | I |  |  | the proceedings of the recent Eisteddfod |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the bardic name of W.  Mr. | Mabon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **proceed** |  | the recent Eisteddfod |  |  |  |  |  | nom proceedings «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | W.  Mr. |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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