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title: Gallant little Wales has no name to rank alongside these; in this de… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gallant little Wales has no name to rank alongside these; in this department the Cymru have shown less vigour than the Gaedhel. Who acts: Gallant little Wales, Cymru. 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 6

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Gallant little Wales has no name to rank alongside these; in this department the Cymru have shown less vigour than the Gaedhel.

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**Who acts:** Gallant little Wales, Cymru · **What happens:** have, rank, show · **To what, where:** name, less vigour

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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 (Gallant little Wales, Cymru), 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:pg7885:2:6
# text = Gallant little Wales has no name to rank alongside these; in this department the Cymru have shown less vigour than the Gaedhel.
1	Gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	rank	rank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Cymru	Cymru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Gaedhel	Gaedhel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Gallant little Wales | no name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **rank** | to-infinitive | Gallant little Wales *not said here* | no name *not said here* |  |  |  | alongside these | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | present · perfect | the Cymru | less vigour |  |  |  | than the Gaedhel; in this department | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent vigour=Patient in department=Topic |

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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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