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title: 136, 140, are instances of a curious characteristic of Gaelic folk-t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 136, 140, are instances of a curious characteristic of Gaelic folk-tales called "runs." Who acts: 136 instances. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 23

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136, 140, are instances of a curious characteristic of Gaelic folk-tales called "runs."

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**Who acts:** 136 instances · **What happens:** be, call, run · **To what, where:** 136 instances, Gaelic folk tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (136 instances), 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:pg7885:50:23
# text = 136, 140, are instances of a curious characteristic of Gaelic folk-tales called "runs."
1	136	136	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	140	140	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	instances	instance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | 136 instances |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  | Gaelic folk tales *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** *in a quote* | present | 136 instances |  |  |  |  | of a curious characteristic of Gaelic folk tales | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of characteristic=Trajectory |

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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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