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title: I could have more than filled this volume with similar oral traditio… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I could have more than filled this volume with similar oral traditions about Finn (the Fingal of Macpherson's "Ossian"). Who acts: I. 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 42

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I could have more than filled this volume with similar oral traditions about Finn (the Fingal of Macpherson's "Ossian").

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, fill · **To what, where:** more

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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:pg7885:2:42
# text = I could have more than filled this volume with similar oral traditions about Finn (the Fingal of Macpherson's "Ossian").
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fingal	Fingal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	Macpherson	Macpherson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Ossian	ossian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | could | I | more |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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