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title: The original Gaelic was given in the _Transactions of the Inverness… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The original Gaelic was given in the _Transactions of the Inverness Gaelic Society_ for 1887, p. 241, _seq. 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 4

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The original Gaelic was given in the \_Transactions of the Inverness Gaelic Society\_ for 1887, p. 241, \_seq.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** original Gaelic, Transactions

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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: 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:pg7885:43:4
# text = The original Gaelic was given in the _Transactions of the Inverness Gaelic Society_ for 1887, p. 241, _seq.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Gaelic	Gaelic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
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	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Transactions	Transaction	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Inverness	Inverness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Gaelic	Gaelic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	241	241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | the original Gaelic |  | the Transactions of the Inverness Gaelic Society |  | for 1887; p. *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for 1887=Asset |

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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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