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title: Meanwhile Wales must be content to be somewhat scantily represented… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Wales must be content to be somewhat scantily represented among the Fairy Tales of the Celts, while the extinct Cornish tongue has only contributed one tale. Who acts: Wales, Fairy Tales. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and th
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 8

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Meanwhile Wales must be content to be somewhat scantily represented among the Fairy Tales of the Celts, while the extinct Cornish tongue has only contributed one tale.

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**Who acts:** Wales, Fairy Tales · **What happens:** be, represent, contribute · **To what, where:** extinct Cornish tongue

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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 (Wales, Fairy Tales), 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:pg7885:2:8
# text = Meanwhile Wales must be content to be somewhat scantily represented among the Fairy Tales of the Celts, while the extinct Cornish tongue has only contributed one tale.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
8	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	scantily	scantily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Cornish	Cornish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | Wales |  |  |  |  | content, meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | to-infinitive · passive | the Fairy Tales of the Celts |  |  |  |  | scantily, somewhat *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contribute** | present · perfect · passive |  | the extinct Cornish tongue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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