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title: If it could succeed in giving a common fund of imaginative wealth to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If it could succeed in giving a common fund of imaginative wealth to the Celtic and the Saxon children of these isles, it might do more for a true union of hearts than all your politics. Who acts: volume. 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 59

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If it could succeed in giving a common fund of imaginative wealth to the Celtic and the Saxon children of these isles, it might do more for a true union of hearts than all your politics.

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**Who acts:** volume · **What happens:** succeed, give, do, fund · **To what, where:** common fund, Celtic, more, imaginative wealth

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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 (volume), 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:pg7885:2:59
# text = If it could succeed in giving a common fund of imaginative wealth to the Celtic and the Saxon children of these isles, it might do more for a true union of hearts than all your politics.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Celtic	Celtic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | volume |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | volume *not said here* | a common fund of imaginative wealth | the Celtic and the Saxon children of this isles |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fund=Theme to celtic=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | might | volume | more |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fund** |  |  | imaginative wealth |  |  |  |  | nom fund «possession 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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