--- title: "There was in the neighbourhood of the wood a priest, and he had ten… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "There was in the neighbourhood of the wood a priest, and he had ten men with him delving, and he said, 'There is a shout of a man in extremity and I must not be without replying to it.' Who acts: cat, ten men, shout. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, ten men, shout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:9:92 # text = "There was in the neighbourhood of the wood a priest, and he had ten men with him delving, and he said, 'There is a shout of a man in extremity and I must not be without replying to it.' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 neighbourhood neighbourhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 delving delve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shout shout NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 extremity extremity NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 38 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 41 without without SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 replying reply VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past | | | | the neighbourhood of the wood a priest; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | cat | ten men | | | | with man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 3 | **delve** *in a quote* | gerund | ten men *not said here* | | | | | | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | cat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a shout of a man in extremity | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | must | cat | | shout | | | reply *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **shout** *in a quote* | | | a man in extremity | | | | | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/93/) - ↑ back to [Conall Yellowclaw](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/)