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title: _--The _Exempla_ were anecdotes, witty and otherwise, used by the mo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The _Exempla_ were anecdotes, witty and otherwise, used by the monks in their sermons to season their discourse. Who acts: sermons. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 9

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\_--The \_Exempla\_ were anecdotes, witty and otherwise, used by the monks in their sermons to season their discourse.

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**Who acts:** sermons · **What happens:** be, use, discourse · **To what, where:** anecdotes

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sermons), 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:pg14241:58:9
# text = _--The _Exempla_ were anecdotes, witty and otherwise, used by the monks in their sermons to season their discourse.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Exempla	Exempla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	witty	witty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sermons	sermon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | anecdotes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the monks in monks's sermons  season | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **discourse** |  | sermons *= sermon* |  |  |  |  |  | nom discourse «communication transitive»: 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:** «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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