--- title: He derived his materials from the English-speaking peasantry of coun… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He derived his materials from the English-speaking peasantry of county Wexford, who changed from Gaelic to English while story-telling was in full vigour, and therefore carried over the stories with the change of language. Who acts: Patrick, Wexford, story telling, language. A sentence of «Celtic Fa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Notes and References](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/) / 16 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 16 He derived his materials from the English-speaking peasantry of county Wexford, who changed from Gaelic to English while story-telling was in full vigour, and therefore carried over the stories with the change of language. **Who acts:** Patrick, Wexford, story telling, language · **What happens:** derive, speak, change, be, carry · **To what, where:** materials, speaking peasantry, English, Gaelic, full vigour, stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patrick, Wexford, story telling, language), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:34:16 # text = He derived his materials from the English-speaking peasantry of county Wexford, who changed from Gaelic to English while story-telling was in full vigour, and therefore carried over the stories with the change of language. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 derived derive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 peasantry peasantry NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 county county NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 Wexford Wexford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Gaelic gaelic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 22 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 telling telling NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 vigour vigour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **derive** | past | Patrick | Patrick's materials | | the speaking peasantry of county | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent material=Result from peasantry=Material | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **change** | past | Wexford | | English | Gaelic | | | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from gaelic=Initial\_State to english=Result | | 4 | **is** | past | story telling | | | full vigour | | | tree rules | | 5 | **carry** | participle | Patrick *not said here* | | | the stories | | with the change of language; therefore *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **change** | | language | | | | | | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/17/) - ↑ back to [Notes and References](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/)