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title: Rhys, _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 486, considers that our tale is paralle… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhys, _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 486, considers that our tale is paralleled by Cuchulain's "Wooing of Emer," a translation of which by Prof. Who acts: Rhys, Cuchulain, our, Emer. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 3

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Rhys, \_Hibbert Lectures\_, p. 486, considers that our tale is paralleled by Cuchulain's "Wooing of Emer," a translation of which by Prof.

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**Who acts:** Rhys, Cuchulain, our, Emer · **What happens:** consider, parallel, woo, tell, translate · **To what, where:** tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rhys, Cuchulain, our, Emer), 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:pg7885:47:3
# text = Rhys, _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 486, considers that our tale is paralleled by Cuchulain's "Wooing of Emer," a translation of which by Prof.
1	Rhys	Rhys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hibbert	Hibbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Lectures	lecture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	486	486	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	considers	consider	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	paralleled	parallel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Wooing	woo	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Emer	Emer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Prof	Prof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present | Rhys and p. |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **parallel** | present · passive | Cuchulain | our tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **woo** *in a quote* | gerund | Cuchulain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Emer | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **translate** |  | Emer |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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