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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 58

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Tales told of Finn of Cuchulain, and therefore coming under the definition of hero-tales, are found elsewhere told of anonymous or unknown heroes.

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**What happens:** tell, come, find, define · **To what, where:** Tales, Finn, definition, hero tales · **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: 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:pg7885:34:58
# text = Tales told of Finn of Cuchulain, and therefore coming under the definition of hero-tales, are found elsewhere told of anonymous or unknown heroes.
1	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	anonymous	anonymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | Tales *not said here* | Finn of Cuchulain |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent finn=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | the definition of hero tales |  | therefore *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under definition=Location |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | Tales |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of anonymous heroes; elsewhere *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **define** |  |  | hero tales |  |  |  |  | nom definition «communication 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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