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title: Celtic folk-tales, while more numerous, are also the oldest of the t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Celtic folk-tales, while more numerous, are also the oldest of the tales of modern European races; some of them--_e.g._, "Connla," in the present selection, occurring in the oldest Irish vellums. Who acts: Celtic folk tales, modern European races. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs,
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 6

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Celtic folk-tales, while more numerous, are also the oldest of the tales of modern European races; some of them--\_e.g.\_, "Connla," in the present selection, occurring in the oldest Irish vellums.

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**Who acts:** Celtic folk tales, modern European races · **What happens:** be, occur, tell · **To what, where:** present selection, oldest Irish vellums · **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 (Celtic folk tales, modern European races), 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:pg7885:34:6
# text = Celtic folk-tales, while more numerous, are also the oldest of the tales of modern European races; some of them--_e.g._, "Connla," in the present selection, occurring in the oldest Irish vellums.
1	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	13	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	occurring	occur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	amod	_	_
43	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	vellums	vellum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Celtic folk tales |  |  | the present selection |  | of the tales of modern European races; Connla *obl*; old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | gerund | Celtic folk tales *not said here* |  |  | the oldest Irish vellums |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in vellum=Location |
| 3 | **tell** |  | modern European races |  |  |  |  |  | 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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