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title: I have found some difficulty in dealing with Campbell's excessive us… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have found some difficulty in dealing with Campbell's excessive use of the second person singular, "If thou thouest him some two or three times, 'tis well," but beyond that it is wearisome. Who acts: I, thou, difficulty, Campbell. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle o
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 5

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I have found some difficulty in dealing with Campbell's excessive use of the second person singular, "If thou thouest him some two or three times, 'tis well," but beyond that it is wearisome.

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**Who acts:** I, thou, difficulty, Campbell · **What happens:** find, deal, thou, be, use · **To what, where:** difficulty, person, second person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, thou, difficulty, Campbell), 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:pg7885:58:5
# text = I have found some difficulty in dealing with Campbell's excessive use of the second person singular, "If thou thouest him some two or three times, 'tis well," but beyond that it is wearisome.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thouest	thou	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect | I | some difficulty |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent difficulty=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **deal** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Campbell's excessive use of the second person | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with use=Theme |
| 3 | **thou** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou | person |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | difficulty |  |  |  |  | wearisome *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** |  | Campbell | the second person |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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