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title: It was Edward Jones who first raised him to that proud position, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was Edward Jones who first raised him to that proud position, and William Spencer who securely installed him there, probably for all time. Who acts: doubt, William. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 83

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It was Edward Jones who first raised him to that proud position, and William Spencer who securely installed him there, probably for all time.

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**Who acts:** doubt, William · **What happens:** be, raise, install · **To what, where:** Edward, proud position

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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 (doubt, William), 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:pg7885:55:83
# text = It was Edward Jones who first raised him to that proud position, and William Spencer who securely installed him there, probably for all time.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Jones	Jones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	installed	install	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | doubt | Edward |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | past |  | Edward |  | that proud position |  | first *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to position=Destination |
| 3 | **install** | past | William | Edward |  | there | time | securely *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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