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title: Gambling for life occurs in Celtic and other folk-tales; _cf. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gambling for life occurs in Celtic and other folk-tales; _cf. Who acts: Gambling. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 14

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Gambling for life occurs in Celtic and other folk-tales; \_cf.

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**Who acts:** Gambling · **What happens:** occur · **To what, where:** cf, Celtic

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gambling), 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:pg7128:50:14
# text = Gambling for life occurs in Celtic and other folk-tales; _cf.
1	Gambling	gambling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Celtic	Celtic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | Gambling for life | cf |  | Celtic and other folk tales |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in celtic=Location |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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