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title: On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly be use… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly be used as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands. 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 12

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On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly be used as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands.

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**What happens:** use · **To what, where:** this, survival method

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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: 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:pg7885:45:12
# text = On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly be used as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	investigation	investigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	polygamy	polygamy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Highlands	Highland	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | would · passive |  | this |  | the survival method of investigation |  | as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands; possibly *property* | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as evidence=Attribute |

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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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