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title: Guleesh accordingly went to the old rath when the night was darkenin… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Guleesh accordingly went to the old rath when the night was darkening, and he stood with his bent elbow leaning on a grey old flag, waiting till the middle of the night should come. Who acts: Guleesh, night. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, wi
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 81

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Guleesh accordingly went to the old rath when the night was darkening, and he stood with his bent elbow leaning on a grey old flag, waiting till the middle of the night should come.

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**Who acts:** Guleesh, night · **What happens:** go, darken, stand, lean, wait, come · **To what, where:** old rath, grey old flag

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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, night), 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:pg7885:5:81
# text = Guleesh accordingly went to the old rath when the night was darkening, and he stood with his bent elbow leaning on a grey old flag, waiting till the middle of the night should come.
1	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rath	rath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	darkening	darken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	nsubj	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Guleesh |  |  | the old rath |  | accordingly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rath=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **darken** | past · progressive | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Guleesh |  |  |  |  | with Guleesh's bent elbow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lean** | gerund | Guleesh *not said here* |  |  | a grey old flag |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on flag=Location |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  | till the middle of the night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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