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title: One of the most pathetic, beautiful, and typical scenes in Irish leg… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the most pathetic, beautiful, and typical scenes in Irish legend is the return of Ossian from Tir-nan-Og, and his interview with St. Patrick. Who acts: typical scenes, Og. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 40

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One of the most pathetic, beautiful, and typical scenes in Irish legend is the return of Ossian from Tir-nan-Og, and his interview with St. Patrick.

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**Who acts:** typical scenes, Og · **What happens:** be, interview · **To what, where:** return, Tir nan

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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 (typical scenes, Og), 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:pg7885:35:40
# text = One of the most pathetic, beautiful, and typical scenes in Irish legend is the return of Ossian from Tir-nan-Og, and his interview with St. Patrick.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	typical	typical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Tir	Tir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | typical scenes in Irish legend | the return |  | Tir nan |  | of Ossian | tree rules |
| 2 | **interview** |  | Og |  |  |  |  | with Patrick  St. | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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