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title: In any other country of Europe some national means of recording them… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In any other country of Europe some national means of recording them would have long ago been adopted. Who acts: national, tales. 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 75

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In any other country of Europe some national means of recording them would have long ago been adopted.

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**Who acts:** national, tales · **What happens:** mean, record, have, adopt

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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 (national, tales), 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:pg7885:34:75
# text = In any other country of Europe some national means of recording them would have long ago been adopted.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	recording	record	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
16	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | some national |  |  |  |  | in any other country of Europe | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in country=Attribute |
| 2 | **record** | gerund | some national *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | would | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **adopt** | participle · passive | tales *= tale* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ago, long *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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