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title: Tales of West Highlands_, No. v. pp. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tales of West Highlands_, No. v. pp. Who acts: West Highlands. 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 2

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Tales of West Highlands\_, No. v. pp.

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**Who acts:** West Highlands · **What happens:** tell · **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 (West Highlands), 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:pg7885:39:2
# text = Tales of West Highlands_, No. v. pp.
1	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Highlands	Highlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	v.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** |  | West Highlands and No. |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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