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title: The old faith and the new, the old order of things and that which re… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old faith and the new, the old order of things and that which replaced it, meet in two of the most characteristic products of the Irish imagination (for the Patrick of legend is as much a legendary figure as Oisin himself). Who acts: things, legendary figure. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» b
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 41

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The old faith and the new, the old order of things and that which replaced it, meet in two of the most characteristic products of the Irish imagination (for the Patrick of legend is as much a legendary figure as Oisin himself).

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**Who acts:** things, legendary figure · **What happens:** replace, meet, be, order · **To what, where:** order, two, Patrick, things

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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 (things, legendary figure), 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:pg7885:35:41
# text = The old faith and the new, the old order of things and that which replaced it, meet in two of the most characteristic products of the Irish imagination (for the Patrick of legend is as much a legendary figure as Oisin himself).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	acl:relcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
45	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | past | things | order |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | infinitive | things *not said here* |  |  | two of the characteristic products of the Irish imagination |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | a legendary figure | the Patrick as Oisin  legend *not said here* |  |  |  | of legend; much *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **order** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom order «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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