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title: Och!' said I, 'it's not much you will be bettered by me, though you… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Och!' said I, 'it's not much you will be bettered by me, though you should tear me asunder; I will make but one meal for you. Who acts: Och, I, me, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 117

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Och!' said I, 'it's not much you will be bettered by me, though you should tear me asunder; I will make but one meal for you.

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**Who acts:** Och, I, me, you · **What happens:** say, not be, better, tear, make · **To what, where:** you, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Och, I, me, you), 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:pg7885:9:117
# text = Och!' said I, 'it's not much you will be bettered by me, though you should tear me asunder; I will make but one meal for you.
1	Och	och	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	bettered	better	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Och |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **better** | future · passive | me | you |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 4 | **tear** | should | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient asunder=Result |
| 5 | **make** | future | I |  |  |  |  | for you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary |

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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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