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title: The incident of the giant's breath occurs in the story of Koisha Kay… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The incident of the giant's breath occurs in the story of Koisha Kayn, MacInnes' _Tales_, i. 241, as well as the Polyphemus one, _ibid. Who acts: incident, MacInnes. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 12

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The incident of the giant's breath occurs in the story of Koisha Kayn, MacInnes' \_Tales\_, i. 241, as well as the Polyphemus one, \_ibid.

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**Who acts:** incident, MacInnes · **What happens:** occur, tell · **To what, where:** Polyphemus, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incident, MacInnes), 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:pg7885:39:12
# text = The incident of the giant's breath occurs in the story of Koisha Kayn, MacInnes' _Tales_, i. 241, as well as the Polyphemus one, _ibid.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Koisha	Koisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Kayn	Kayn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	MacInnes	MacInnes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	nsubj	_	_
23	241	241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	ibid	ibid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the incident of the giant's breath | the Polyphemus and ibid |  | the story of Koisha |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in story=Location |
| 2 | **tell** |  | MacInnes |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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