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title: The legend is not given in the Red Book, but from oral tradition by… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The legend is not given in the Red Book, but from oral tradition by Mr. W. Rees, p. xxi. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 2

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The legend is not given in the Red Book, but from oral tradition by Mr. W. Rees, p. xxi.

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**What happens:** not give · **To what, where:** legend, Red Book

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. 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:pg7885:41:2
# text = The legend is not given in the Red Book, but from oral tradition by Mr. W. Rees, p. xxi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	Rees	Rees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
21	xxi	xxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | present · passive |  | the legend |  | the Red Book |  | xxi *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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