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title: Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral traditi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 38

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Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:pg7885:2:38
# text = Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
1	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Gaels	Gael	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | large, nowhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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