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title: The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of stor… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there are every signs that its term of life is already numbered. Who acts: practice, signs. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree an
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 30

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The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there are every signs that its term of life is already numbered.

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**Who acts:** practice, signs · **What happens:** collect, be, number, practice, term · **To what, where:** Celtic folk tales, full vigour, term, story telling, life

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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 (practice, signs), 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:pg7885:2:30
# text = The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there are every signs that its term of life is already numbered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	already	already	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Celtic folk tales |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the practice of story telling |  |  | full vigour | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** | present | every signs |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **number** | present · passive | every signs *not said here* | practice's term of life |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **practice** |  |  | story telling |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **term** |  | practice | life |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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