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title: Red-haired men in Ireland and elsewhere are always rogues (see Mr. N… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Red-haired men in Ireland and elsewhere are always rogues (see Mr. Nutt's references, MacInnes' _Tales_, 477; to which add the case in "Lough Neagh," Yeats, _Irish Folk-Tales_, p. 210). Who acts: Red haired men, rogues, Nutt, MacInnes. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad W
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 13

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Red-haired men in Ireland and elsewhere are always rogues (see Mr. Nutt's references, MacInnes' \_Tales\_, 477; to which add the case in "Lough Neagh," Yeats, \_Irish Folk-Tales\_, p. 210).

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**Who acts:** Red haired men, rogues, Nutt, MacInnes · **What happens:** be, see, add, refer, tell · **To what, where:** rogues, references, case, Lough · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red haired men, rogues, Nutt, MacInnes), 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:pg7885:60:13
# text = Red-haired men in Ireland and elsewhere are always rogues (see Mr. Nutt's references, MacInnes' _Tales_, 477; to which add the case in "Lough Neagh," Yeats, _Irish Folk-Tales_, p. 210).
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	MacInnes	MacInnes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	477	477	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
29	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Lough	Lough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	Neagh	Neagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Yeats	yeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
48	210	210	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | Red haired men in Ireland | rogues |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | rogues *not said here* | Nutt  Mr.'s references and MacInnes's Tales |  |  |  | 477 *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reference=Stimulus |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | rogues *not said here* | the case |  | Lough and Yeats |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent case=Patient to which=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **refer** |  | Nutt  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **tell** |  | MacInnes |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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