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title: It was also utilised as a proverb: "_Yr wy'n edivaru cymmaint a'r Gw… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was also utilised as a proverb: "_Yr wy'n edivaru cymmaint a'r Gwr a laddodd ei Vilgi_" ("I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound"). Who acts: Mr. Nutt, man. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 44

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It was also utilised as a proverb: "\_Yr wy'n edivaru cymmaint a'r Gwr a laddodd ei Vilgi\_" ("I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound").

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**Who acts:** Mr. Nutt, man · **What happens:** utilise, repent, slay · **To what, where:** apologue, much, greyhound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Nutt, man), 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:pg7885:55:44
# text = It was also utilised as a proverb: "_Yr wy'n edivaru cymmaint a'r Gwr a laddodd ei Vilgi_" ("I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound").
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	utilised	utilise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Yr	year	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wy'n	wy'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	edivaru	edivaru	X	FW	_	15	compound	_	_
14	cymmaint	cymmaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	a'r	a'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	Gwr	Gwr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	laddodd	laddodd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	ei	EI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Vilgi	Vilgi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	repent	repent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utilise** | past · passive |  | apologue |  |  |  | as a proverb | tree rules |
| 2 | **repent** *in a quote* | present | Mr. Nutt *= nutt* | much |  |  |  | as the man | tree rules |
| 3 | **slay** *in a quote* | past | the man | man's greyhound |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=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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