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title: _Parallels_.--Campbell's vi. and vii. are two variants showing how w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Campbell's vi. and vii. are two variants showing how widespread the story is in Gaelic Scotland. Who acts: Parallels, two variants. 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 7

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\_Parallels\_.--Campbell's vi. and vii. are two variants showing how widespread the story is in Gaelic Scotland.

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**Who acts:** Parallels, two variants · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** two variants, widespread story, Gaelic Scotland

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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 (Parallels, two variants), 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:pg7885:39:7
# text = _Parallels_.--Campbell's vi. and vii. are two variants showing how widespread the story is in Gaelic Scotland.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	vi	vi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Gaelic	Gaelic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Parallels and Campbell's vi and vii | two variants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | two variants *not said here* | the widespread story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Gaelic Scotland |  |  | tree rules |

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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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