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title: For the more romantic tales I have depended on the Gaelic, and, as I… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For the more romantic tales I have depended on the Gaelic, and, as I know about as much of Gaelic as an Irish Nationalist M. P., I have had to depend on translators. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 17

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For the more romantic tales I have depended on the Gaelic, and, as I know about as much of Gaelic as an Irish Nationalist M. P., I have had to depend on translators.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** depend, know about, have · **To what, where:** much

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to Alfred Nutt\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7885:2:17
# text = For the more romantic tales I have depended on the Gaelic, and, as I know about as much of Gaelic as an Irish Nationalist M. P., I have had to depend on translators.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	depended	depend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Nationalist	Nationalist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	translators	translator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | for the romantic tales; on the Gaelic | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on gaelic=Theme |
| 2 | **know about** | present | I | much of Gaelic |  |  |  | as a M. P. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus as p.=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **depend** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on translators | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on translator=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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