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title: Jephtha vows are also frequent in folk-tales: Miss Cox gives many ex… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jephtha vows are also frequent in folk-tales: Miss Cox gives many examples in her _Cinderella_, p. 511. Who acts: Jephtha vows, Miss Cox. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 9

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Jephtha vows are also frequent in folk-tales: Miss Cox gives many examples in her \_Cinderella\_, p. 511.

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**Who acts:** Jephtha vows, Miss Cox · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** folk tales, many examples, Cinderella

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jephtha vows, Miss Cox), 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:pg14241:78:9
# text = Jephtha vows are also frequent in folk-tales: Miss Cox gives many examples in her _Cinderella_, p. 511.
1	Jephtha	Jephtha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Cox	Cox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	511	511	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jephtha vows |  |  | folk tales |  | frequent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | Miss Cox | many examples |  | Cox's Cinderella |  | 511  p. *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=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:** «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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