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title: I leave to Celtic specialists the task of settling the exact relatio… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I leave to Celtic specialists the task of settling the exact relations of these various texts. Who acts: I, task. 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 29

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I leave to Celtic specialists the task of settling the exact relations of these various texts.

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**Who acts:** I, task · **What happens:** leave, settle · **To what, where:** Celtic specialists, exact relations

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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 (I, task), 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:pg7885:43:29
# text = I leave to Celtic specialists the task of settling the exact relations of these various texts.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	specialists	specialist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | I |  |  | Celtic specialists and the task |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to specialist=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **settle** | gerund | the task *not said here* | the exact relations of this various texts |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme relation=Location |

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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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