--- title: As I have pointed out, it is used to this day by Bengali women at th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As I have pointed out, it is used to this day by Bengali women at the end of each folk-tale they recite (L. B. Day, _Folk-Tales of Bengal_, Pref.). Who acts: I, Bengali women, Tales, Bengal. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Munachar and Manachar., with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [X. Munachar and Manachar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/) / 12 # Celtic Fairy Tales, X. Munachar and Manachar., sentence 12 As I have pointed out, it is used to this day by Bengali women at the end of each folk-tale they recite (L. B. Day, \_Folk-Tales of Bengal\_, Pref.). **Who acts:** I, Bengali women, Tales, Bengal · **What happens:** point out, use, recite, tell · **To what, where:** arriero, L. B. Day, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Munachar and Manachar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bengali women, Tales, Bengal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:44:12 # text = As I have pointed out, it is used to this day by Bengali women at the end of each folk-tale they recite (L. B. Day, _Folk-Tales of Bengal_, Pref.). 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 Bengali Bengali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 21 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 recite recite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 L. L. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 B. B. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Pref Pref PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **use** | present · passive | Bengali women | arriero | | | day | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **recite** | present | Tales *= tale* | L. B. Day and Pref | | | at the end of each folk tale | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme | | 4 | **tell** | | Bengal | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/13/) - ↑ back to [X. Munachar and Manachar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/)