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title: The Celtic folk-tale again has interest in retaining many traits of… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Celtic folk-tale again has interest in retaining many traits of primitive conditions among the early inhabitants of these isles which are preserved by no other record. Who acts: Celtic folk tale, interest, other record. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, w
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 65

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The Celtic folk-tale again has interest in retaining many traits of primitive conditions among the early inhabitants of these isles which are preserved by no other record.

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**Who acts:** Celtic folk tale, interest, other record · **What happens:** have, retain, preserve · **To what, where:** interest, many traits, isles

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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 tale, interest, other record), 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:pg7885:34:65
# text = The Celtic folk-tale again has interest in retaining many traits of primitive conditions among the early inhabitants of these isles which are preserved by no other record.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	retaining	retain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	traits	trait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Celtic folk tale | interest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient |
| 2 | **retain** | gerund | interest *not said here* | many traits of primitive conditions |  |  |  | among the early inhabitants of this isles | tree rules |
| 3 | **preserve** | present · passive | no other record | this isles |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |

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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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