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title: But the story of Finn, as told by the Gaelic peasantry of to-day, de… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the story of Finn, as told by the Gaelic peasantry of to-day, deserves a volume by itself, while the adventures of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, could easily fill another. Who acts: story, adventures. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 43

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But the story of Finn, as told by the Gaelic peasantry of to-day, deserves a volume by itself, while the adventures of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, could easily fill another.

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**Who acts:** story, adventures · **What happens:** tell, deserve, fill, adventure · **To what, where:** story, volume, another, Ultonian hero · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (story, adventures), 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:pg7885:2:43
# text = But the story of Finn, as told by the Gaelic peasantry of to-day, deserves a volume by itself, while the adventures of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, could easily fill another.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Ultonian	Ultonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the story of Finn *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Gaelic peasantry of day | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deserve** | present | the story of Finn | a volume |  |  |  | by volume | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | could | the adventures of the Ultonian hero | another |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent another=Patient |
| 4 | **adventure** |  |  | the Ultonian hero |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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