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title: For it is referred to in the following passage of Nennius' _Historia… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For it is referred to in the following passage of Nennius' _Historia Britonum_ ed. Who acts: Nennius. 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 16

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For it is referred to in the following passage of Nennius' \_Historia Britonum\_ ed.

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**Who acts:** Nennius · **What happens:** refer, follow, pass · **To what, where:** hunting

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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 (Nennius), 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:pg7885:47:16
# text = For it is referred to in the following passage of Nennius' _Historia Britonum_ ed.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Nennius	Nennius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Historia	Historia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	Britonum	Britonum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
17	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present · passive |  | hunting |  |  |  | Historia ed *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** |  | Nennius |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act 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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