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title: _Remarks_.--The hunting of the boar Trwyth can be traced back in Wel… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--The hunting of the boar Trwyth can be traced back in Welsh tradition at least as early as the ninth century. Who acts: Remarks. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 15

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\_Remarks\_.--The hunting of the boar Trwyth can be traced back in Welsh tradition at least as early as the ninth century.

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**Who acts:** Remarks · **What happens:** trace back, hunt · **To what, where:** hunting, Welsh tradition, boar

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks), 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:pg7885:47:15
# text = _Remarks_.--The hunting of the boar Trwyth can be traced back in Welsh tradition at least as early as the ninth century.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Trwyth	Trwyth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace back** | can · passive | Remarks *not said here* | the hunting of the boar |  | Welsh tradition |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tradition=Destination |
| 2 | **hunt** |  |  | the boar |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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