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title: Of these tales of "cattle-liftings, elopements, battles, voyages, co… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of these tales of "cattle-liftings, elopements, battles, voyages, courtships, caves, lakes, feasts, sieges, and eruptions," a bard of even the fourth class had to know seven fifties, presumably one for each day of the year. Who acts: bard, cattle liftings. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Josep
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 23

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Of these tales of "cattle-liftings, elopements, battles, voyages, courtships, caves, lakes, feasts, sieges, and eruptions," a bard of even the fourth class had to know seven fifties, presumably one for each day of the year.

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**Who acts:** bard, cattle liftings · **What happens:** have, know, tell · **To what, where:** seven fifties · **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 (bard, cattle liftings), 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:pg7885:34:23
# text = Of these tales of "cattle-liftings, elopements, battles, voyages, courtships, caves, lakes, feasts, sieges, and eruptions," a bard of even the fourth class had to know seven fifties, presumably one for each day of the year.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	liftings	lifting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	elopements	elopement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	courtships	courtship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	sieges	siege	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	fifties	fifty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	presumably	presumably	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	appos	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a bard of the fourth class |  |  |  |  | of this tales of cattle liftings and elopements and battles and voyages and courtships and caves and lakes and feasts and sieges and eruptions | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | a bard of the fourth class *not said here* | seven fifties |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fifty=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** |  | cattle liftings and elopements and battles and voyages and courtships and caves and lakes and feasts and sieges |  |  |  |  |  | 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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