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title: It is now recognised that Macpherson had, or could have had, ample m… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is now recognised that Macpherson had, or could have had, ample material for his _rechauffe_ of the Finn or "Fingal" saga. Who acts: Macpherson. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 27

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It is now recognised that Macpherson had, or could have had, ample material for his \_rechauffe\_ of the Finn or "Fingal" saga.

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**Who acts:** Macpherson · **What happens:** recognise, have · **To what, where:** record, ample material

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Macpherson), 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:pg7885:43:27
# text = It is now recognised that Macpherson had, or could have had, ample material for his _rechauffe_ of the Finn or "Fingal" saga.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Macpherson	Macpherson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	ample	ample	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	rechauffe	rechauffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Fingal	Fingal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	saga	saga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | present · passive |  | record |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Macpherson |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | could · perfect |  | ample material for Macpherson's \_ rechauffe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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