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title: The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble tha… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. " Who acts: fate. 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 56

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The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. "

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**Who acts:** fate · **What happens:** bid, resemble, fate · **To what, where:** Greeks, Celt

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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 (fate), 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:pg7885:2:56
# text = The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Celt	Celt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	bids	bid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | present | the fate of the Celt in the British Empire |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | to-infinitive |  | that Greeks |  |  |  | among the Romans | tree rules |
| 3 | **fate** |  |  | the Celt in the British Empire |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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