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title: Mr. Nutt found the feather-thatch incident in the _Agallamh na Senor… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Nutt found the feather-thatch incident in the _Agallamh na Senoraib_ ("Discourse of Elders"), which is at least as old as the fifteenth century. Who acts: Mr., Discourse. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 12

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Mr. Nutt found the feather-thatch incident in the \_Agallamh na Senoraib\_ ("Discourse of Elders"), which is at least as old as the fifteenth century.

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**Who acts:** Mr., Discourse · **What happens:** find, be, discourse · **To what, where:** thatch incident, Elders

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., Discourse), 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:pg7885:58:12
# text = Mr. Nutt found the feather-thatch incident in the _Agallamh na Senoraib_ ("Discourse of Elders"), which is at least as old as the fifteenth century.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	thatch	thatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Agallamh	Agallamh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	na	na	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	3	obj	_	_
14	Senoraib	Senoraib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	obl	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Mr. | the thatch incident |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Discourse of Elders |  |  |  | century | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **discourse** *in a quote* |  |  | Elders |  |  |  |  | nom discourse «communication transitive»: of=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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