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title: For the second episode is clearly the story of Polyphemus from the O… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For the second episode is clearly the story of Polyphemus from the Odyssey which was known in Ireland perhaps as early as the tenth century (see Prof. 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 21

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For the second episode is clearly the story of Polyphemus from the Odyssey which was known in Ireland perhaps as early as the tenth century (see Prof.

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**What happens:** be, know, see · **To what, where:** story, Ireland, Prof

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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: 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:pg7885:39:21
# text = For the second episode is clearly the story of Polyphemus from the Odyssey which was known in Ireland perhaps as early as the tenth century (see Prof.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
28	Prof	prof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the story |  |  |  | for the second episode; of Polyphemus from the Odyssey; clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | the story |  | Ireland |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  | Prof |  |  | century | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prof=Stimulus |

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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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