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title: This result is a striking confirmation of the general truth that fol… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This result is a striking confirmation of the general truth that folk-lores of different countries resemble one another in proportion to their contiguity and to the continuity of language and culture between them. Who acts: result, folk lores. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Not
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 56

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This result is a striking confirmation of the general truth that folk-lores of different countries resemble one another in proportion to their contiguity and to the continuity of language and culture between them.

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**Who acts:** result, folk lores · **What happens:** strike, be, resemble · **To what, where:** striking confirmation, proportion

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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 (result, folk lores), 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:pg7885:34:56
# text = This result is a striking confirmation of the general truth that folk-lores of different countries resemble one another in proportion to their contiguity and to the continuity of language and culture between them.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
12	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lores	lore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	fixed	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	contiguity	contiguity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	continuity	continuity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	between	between	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this result | a striking confirmation |  |  |  | of the general truth | tree rules |
| 3 | **resemble** | present | folk lores of different countries | a striking confirmation |  | proportion |  | to countries's contiguity and the continuity of language and culture between contiguity | 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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