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title: These "runs" are often similar in both the Irish and the Scotch form… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These "runs" are often similar in both the Irish and the Scotch form of the same tale or of the same incident. Who acts: runs. 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 25

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These "runs" are often similar in both the Irish and the Scotch form of the same tale or of the same incident.

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**Who acts:** runs · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** Irish, same tale

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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 (runs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:2547`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:50:25
# text = These "runs" are often similar in both the Irish and the Scotch form of the same tale or of the same incident.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	runs	run	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Scotch	Scotch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this runs |  |  | the Irish and the Scotch form of the same tale or the same incident |  | often, similar *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | the same tale or the same incident |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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