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title: These are by an American gentleman named Curtin, _Myths and Folk-Tal… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These are by an American gentleman named Curtin, _Myths and Folk-Tales of Ireland_, 1890; while Dr. Douglas Hyde has published in _Beside the Fireside_, 1891, spirited English versions of some of the stories he had published in the original Irish in his _Leabhar Sgeulaighteachta_, Dublin, 1889. Who 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 19

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These are by an American gentleman named Curtin, \_Myths and Folk-Tales of Ireland\_, 1890; while Dr. Douglas Hyde has published in \_Beside the Fireside\_, 1891, spirited English versions of some of the stories he had published in the original Irish in his \_Leabhar Sgeulaighteachta\_, Dublin, 1889.

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**Who acts:** These, Douglas, Ireland · **What happens:** be, name, publish, spirit, tell · **To what, where:** American gentleman, Fireside, English versions, stories, original Irish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (These, Douglas, Ireland), 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:pg7885:34:19
# text = These are by an American gentleman named Curtin, _Myths and Folk-Tales of Ireland_, 1890; while Dr. Douglas Hyde has published in _Beside the Fireside_, 1891, spirited English versions of some of the stories he had published in the original Irish in his _Leabhar Sgeulaighteachta_, Dublin, 1889.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	Curtin	Curtin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	Hyde	Hyde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Fireside	Fireside	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	1891	1891	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
37	spirited	spirit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	acl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
54	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	Leabhar	Leabhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
56	Sgeulaighteachta	Sgeulaighteachta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	59	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | These |  |  |  |  | by a American gentleman | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a American gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **publish** | present · perfect | Douglas  Dr. | a American gentleman *not said here* |  | the Fireside |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Result |
| 4 | **spirit** | past |  | English versions of some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **publish** | past · perfect | Douglas | the stories *not said here* |  | the original Irish |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result |
| 6 | **tell** |  | Ireland |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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