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title: Zimmer's paper contains three other accounts of the _terra repromiss… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Zimmer's paper contains three other accounts of the _terra repromissionis_ in the Irish sagas, one of them being the similar adventure of Cormac the nephew of Connla, or Condla Ruad as he should be called. Who acts: paper, accounts. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 17

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Zimmer's paper contains three other accounts of the \_terra repromissionis\_ in the Irish sagas, one of them being the similar adventure of Cormac the nephew of Connla, or Condla Ruad as he should be called.

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**Who acts:** paper, accounts · **What happens:** contain, be, call, account · **To what, where:** three other accounts, paper, terra repromissionis · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paper, accounts), 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:pg7885:35:17
# text = Zimmer's paper contains three other accounts of the _terra repromissionis_ in the Irish sagas, one of them being the similar adventure of Cormac the nephew of Connla, or Condla Ruad as he should be called.
1	Zimmer	zimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	terra	terra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	repromissionis	repromissionis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sagas	saga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Cormac	Cormac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	Condla	Condla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Ruad	Ruad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Zimmer's paper | three other accounts of the terra repromissionis and the Irish sagas |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | accounts *= account* |  |  |  |  | of the similar adventure; of Cormac | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | should · passive |  | paper |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | the terra repromissionis |  |  |  |  | nom account «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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