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title: Yet if, as is probable, the story came from abroad, this trait may h… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet if, as is probable, the story came from abroad, this trait may have come with it, and only implies polygamy in the original home of the tale. Who acts: story, trait. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., sentence 13

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Yet if, as is probable, the story came from abroad, this trait may have come with it, and only implies polygamy in the original home of the tale.

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**Who acts:** story, trait · **What happens:** be, come, imply · **To what, where:** polygamy, original home

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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 (story, trait), 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:pg7885:45:13
# text = Yet if, as is probable, the story came from abroad, this trait may have come with it, and only implies polygamy in the original home of the tale.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	trait	trait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	implies	imply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	polygamy	polygamy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the story |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from abroad=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | may · perfect | this trait |  |  |  |  | with story | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **imply** | present | the story *not said here* | polygamy |  | the original home of the tale |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot polygamy=Topic |

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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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