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title: This is practically the suggestion of a wise Mohammedan, who is quot… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This is practically the suggestion of a wise Mohammedan, who is quoted by Yule as saying, "_Wallah! Who acts: This, Yule. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 14

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This is practically the suggestion of a wise Mohammedan, who is quoted by Yule as saying, "\_Wallah!

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**Who acts:** This, Yule · **What happens:** be, quote, say · **To what, where:** suggestion, Wallah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Yule), 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:pg7885:50:14
# text = This is practically the suggestion of a wise Mohammedan, who is quoted by Yule as saying, "_Wallah!
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Mohammedan	Mohammedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Yule	yule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Wallah	Wallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the suggestion |  |  |  | of a wise Mohammedan; practically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **quote** *speech: other* | present · passive | Yule | the suggestion |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Yule *not said here* | Wallah |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wallah=Topic |

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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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