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title: There are even traces in the Old Testament of such screeds of verse… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There are even traces in the Old Testament of such screeds of verse amid the prose narrative, as in the story of Lamech or that of Balaam. Who acts: traces. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 42

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There are even traces in the Old Testament of such screeds of verse amid the prose narrative, as in the story of Lamech or that of Balaam.

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**Who acts:** traces · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traces), 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:pg7439:71:42
# text = There are even traces in the Old Testament of such screeds of verse amid the prose narrative, as in the story of Lamech or that of Balaam.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Testament	Testament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	screeds	screed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	prose	prose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Lamech	Lamech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Balaam	Balaam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | traces in the Old Testament of such screeds of verse amid and the prose narrative |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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