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title: In my remarks I have mainly confined myself to discussing the origin… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In my remarks I have mainly confined myself to discussing the origin and diffusion of the various tales, so far as anything definite could be learnt or conjectured on that subject. Who acts: my. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and t
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 83

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In my remarks I have mainly confined myself to discussing the origin and diffusion of the various tales, so far as anything definite could be learnt or conjectured on that subject.

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** confine, discuss, learn, conjecture, remark, diffuse · **To what, where:** I, remarks, origin, anything, subject, various tales

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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 (my), 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:pg7885:34:83
# text = In my remarks I have mainly confined myself to discussing the origin and diffusion of the various tales, so far as anything definite could be learnt or conjectured on that subject.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	discussing	discuss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	definite	definite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	conjectured	conjecture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  | my remarks |  | myself *obl:unmarked*; mainly *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in remark=Destination |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the origin and diffusion of the various tales |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Topic |
| 3 | **learn** | could · passive |  | anything |  |  |  | far *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **conjecture** | participle |  |  |  | that subject |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remark** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **diffuse** |  |  | the various tales |  |  |  |  | nom diffusion «process 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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