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title: Recently Lord Archibald Campbell has shown laudable interest in the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Recently Lord Archibald Campbell has shown laudable interest in the preservation of Gaelic folk- and hero-tales. Who acts: Lord. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 40

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Recently Lord Archibald Campbell has shown laudable interest in the preservation of Gaelic folk- and hero-tales.

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** show, preserve · **To what, where:** laudable interest, Gaelic folk

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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 (Lord), 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:pg7885:34:40
# text = Recently Lord Archibald Campbell has shown laudable interest in the preservation of Gaelic folk- and hero-tales.
1	Recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Archibald	Archibald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	laudable	laudable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · perfect | Lord | laudable interest |  |  |  | in the preservation of Gaelic folk and hero tales; recently *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent interest=Patient in preservation=Topic |
| 2 | **preserve** |  |  | Gaelic folk and hero tales |  |  |  |  | nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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