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title: Certainly,' said the priest, 'it is a man in extremity--let us move.' — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly,' said the priest, 'it is a man in extremity--let us move.' Who acts: priest, man, us. 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 95

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Certainly,' said the priest, 'it is a man in extremity--let us move.'

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**Who acts:** priest, man, us · **What happens:** say, be, let, move · **To what, where:** priest, man, extremity, us · **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 (priest, man, us), 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:pg7885:9:95
# text = Certainly,' said the priest, 'it is a man in extremity--let us move.'
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	extremity	extremity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the priest |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent priest=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | priest | a man |  | extremity |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | a man *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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