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title: But nothing turns upon this interpolation, so that it is likely that… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But nothing turns upon this interpolation, so that it is likely that even the present form of the legend is pre-Christian-_i.e._ for Ireland, pre-Patrician, before the fifth century. Who acts: nothing, form, present form. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy M
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 30

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But nothing turns upon this interpolation, so that it is likely that even the present form of the legend is pre-Christian-\_i.e.\_ for Ireland, pre-Patrician, before the fifth century.

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**Who acts:** nothing, form, present form · **What happens:** turn, be, form · **To what, where:** interpolation, legend

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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 (nothing, form, present form), 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:pg7885:35:30
# text = But nothing turns upon this interpolation, so that it is likely that even the present form of the legend is pre-Christian-_i.e._ for Ireland, pre-Patrician, before the fifth century.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	interpolation	interpolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	pre-Christian	pre-christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	pre-Patrician	pre-patrician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | nothing |  |  | this interpolation |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon interpolation=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | form |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the present form of the legend |  |  |  |  | pre-christian *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | the legend |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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