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title: _--A Gaelic parallel was given by Campbell in _Trans. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--A Gaelic parallel was given by Campbell in _Trans. Who acts: Campbell. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 6

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\_--A Gaelic parallel was given by Campbell in \_Trans.

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**Who acts:** Campbell · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Gaelic parallel

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Campbell), 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:pg7128:59:6
# text = _--A Gaelic parallel was given by Campbell in _Trans.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Trans	Tran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive | Campbell in \_ Trans | a Gaelic parallel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:** «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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