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title: Yet in it occurs a most "primitive" incident, the bigamous household… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet in it occurs a most "primitive" incident, the bigamous household of the hero; this is glossed over in Mr. Macleod's other variant. Who acts: Macleod. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., sentence 11

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Yet in it occurs a most "primitive" incident, the bigamous household of the hero; this is glossed over in Mr. Macleod's other variant.

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**Who acts:** Macleod · **What happens:** occur, gloss over, vary · **To what, where:** primitive incident, version, this, other variant

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Macleod), 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:pg7885:45:11
# text = Yet in it occurs a most "primitive" incident, the bigamous household of the hero; this is glossed over in Mr. Macleod's other variant.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
4	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bigamous	bigamous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	glossed	gloss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Macleod	Macleod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	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 | **occur** | present |  | a primitive incident |  | version |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gloss over** | present · passive |  | this |  | Macleod  Mr.'s other variant |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vary** |  | Macleod  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: poss=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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