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title: The passage certainly seems to me to imply a different conception fr… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The passage certainly seems to me to imply a different conception from the ordinary classical views of the life after death, the dark and dismal plains of Erebus peopled with ghosts; and the passage I have italicised would chime in well with the conception of a continuance of youth (_idem spiritus_)
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 39

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The passage certainly seems to me to imply a different conception from the ordinary classical views of the life after death, the dark and dismal plains of Erebus peopled with ghosts; and the passage I have italicised would chime in well with the conception of a continuance of youth (\_idem spiritus\_) in Tir-nan-Og (\_orbe alio\_).

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**Who acts:** passage, dark plains, I, youth · **What happens:** seem, imply, people, italicis, chime, conceive · **To what, where:** me, different conception, ordinary classical views, passage, Tir nan, continuance

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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 (passage, dark plains, I, youth), 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:pg7885:35:39
# text = The passage certainly seems to me to imply a different conception from the ordinary classical views of the life after death, the dark and dismal plains of Erebus peopled with ghosts; and the passage I have italicised would chime in well with the conception of a continuance of youth (_idem spiritus_) in Tir-nan-Og (_orbe alio_).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	imply	imply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Erebus	Erebus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	peopled	people	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	italicised	italicis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	chime	chime	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
42	in	in	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	fixed	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	continuance	continuance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	idem	idem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	spiritus	spiritus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	55	punct	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	Tir	Tir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	appos	_	_
64	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	orbe	orbe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	63	flat:foreign	_	_
67	alio	alio	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	66	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the passage |  | me |  |  | certainly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **imply** | to-infinitive | the passage *not said here* | a different conception |  | the ordinary classical views |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot conception=Topic |
| 3 | **people** | past | the dark plains of Erebus |  |  |  |  | of the life after death; with ghosts | tree rules |
| 4 | **italicis** | present · perfect | I | the passage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **chime** | would | the passage |  |  | Tir nan |  | with the conception of a continuance of youth | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nan=Location |
| 6 | **conceive** |  |  | a continuance of youth |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **continue** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom continuance «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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