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title: _ 'tis my opinion there has been neither going up nor coming down; '… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ 'tis my opinion there has been neither going up nor coming down; 'tis all hocus-pocus," hocus-pocus being presumably the Mohammedan term for hypnotism. Who acts: opinion, tis, pocus, my. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., with its dependency tree 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 15

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\_ 'tis my opinion there has been neither going up nor coming down; 'tis all hocus-pocus," hocus-pocus being presumably the Mohammedan term for hypnotism.

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**Who acts:** opinion, tis, pocus, my · **What happens:** go up, come down, pocus, hocus, be, opine · **To what, where:** Mohammedan term · **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 (opinion, tis, pocus, my), 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:pg7885:50:15
# text = _ 'tis my opinion there has been neither going up nor coming down; 'tis all hocus-pocus," hocus-pocus being presumably the Mohammedan term for hypnotism.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tis	tis	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
9	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
19	hocus	hocus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	pocus	pocus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hocus	hocus	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	pocus	pocus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
28	presumably	presumably	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Mohammedan	Mohammedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	hypnotism	hypnotism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **go up** | present · perfect · progressive | my opinion |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **come down** | gerund | my opinion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pocus** |  | tis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hocus** *in a quote* | infinitive | tis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | gerund | pocus | the Mohammedan term |  |  |  | for hypnotism; presumably *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **opine** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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