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title: Both these writers are inclined to trace the chief incidents to India. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Both these writers are inclined to trace the chief incidents to India. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 17

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Both these writers are inclined to trace the chief incidents to India.

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**What happens:** incline, trace · **To what, where:** writers, chief incidents, India

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. 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:pg7885:40:17
# text = Both these writers are inclined to trace the chief incidents to India.
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc:preconj	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | present · passive |  | this writers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trace** | to-infinitive |  | the chief incidents | India |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme |

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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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