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title: When Guleesh said that he would be very thankful to the priest if he… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Guleesh said that he would be very thankful to the priest if he would keep her in his own house, the kind man said he would do that as long as Guleesh pleased, but that he did not know what they ought to do with her, because they had no means of sending her back to her father again. Who acts: G
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 64

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When Guleesh said that he would be very thankful to the priest if he would keep her in his own house, the kind man said he would do that as long as Guleesh pleased, but that he did not know what they ought to do with her, because they had no means of sending her back to her father again.

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**Who acts:** Guleesh, kind man, house · **What happens:** say, be, keep, do, not know, have · **To what, where:** priest, own house, that, no, back, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guleesh, kind man, house), 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:pg7885:5:64
# text = When Guleesh said that he would be very thankful to the priest if he would keep her in his own house, the kind man said he would do that as long as Guleesh pleased, but that he did not know what they ought to do with her, because they had no means of sending her back to her father again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obj	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	advcl	_	_
43	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	42	obj	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	nsubj	_	_
54	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	53	obj	_	_
55	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
56	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
57	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	advcl	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
63	again	again	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Guleesh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | Guleesh |  |  |  |  | to the priest; thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Guleesh | priest |  | Guleesh's own house |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in house=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the kind man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | would | Guleesh | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Guleesh |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Guleesh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with priest | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **have** | past | house | no |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Patient |
| 9 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **send** | gerund |  | priest's back | priest's father |  | again |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to father=Destination |

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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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