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title: _--It is possible that this is an Eastern "sell": it occurs at any r… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--It is possible that this is an Eastern "sell": it occurs at any rate as the first episode in Fitzgerald's translation of Jami's _Salámán and Absál_. Who acts: Source, this, _. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 4

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\_--It is possible that this is an Eastern "sell": it occurs at any rate as the first episode in Fitzgerald's translation of Jami's \_Salámán and Absál\_.

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**Who acts:** Source, this, \_ · **What happens:** be, occur, translate · **To what, where:** Eastern sell, rate

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Source, this, \_), 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:pg14241:46:4
# text = _--It is possible that this is an Eastern "sell": it occurs at any rate as the first episode in Fitzgerald's translation of Jami's _Salámán and Absál_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	sell	sell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Fitzgerald	Fitzgerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Jami	Jami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Salámán	Salámán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Absál	Absál	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Source |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | a Eastern sell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **occur** | present | Source |  |  | any rate |  | as the first episode in Fitzgerald's translation of Jami's \_ and Absál | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at rate=Location |
| 4 | **translate** |  | Jami's \_ and Absál |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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