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title: Lucan, in his _Pharsalia_ (i. 450-8), addresses them in these high t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lucan, in his _Pharsalia_ (i. 450-8), addresses them in these high terms of reverence: Who acts: Lucan. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 36

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Lucan, in his \_Pharsalia\_ (i. 450-8), addresses them in these high terms of reverence:

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**Who acts:** Lucan · **What happens:** address, term · **To what, where:** classics, high terms, reverence

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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 (Lucan), 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:pg7885:35:36
# text = Lucan, in his _Pharsalia_ (i. 450-8), addresses them in these high terms of reverence:
1	Lucan	Lucan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Pharsalia	Pharsalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
10	450-8	450-8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	addresses	address	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | present | Lucan in Lucan's Pharsalia | classics *= classic* |  | this high terms of reverence |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 2 | **term** |  |  | reverence |  |  |  |  | nom term «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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