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title: If so, it is likely enough that it spread from Ireland through Europ… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If so, it is likely enough that it spread from Ireland through Europe with the Irish missions (for the wide extent of which see map in Mrs. Bryant's _Celtic Ireland_). Who acts: story. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 32

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If so, it is likely enough that it spread from Ireland through Europe with the Irish missions (for the wide extent of which see map in Mrs. Bryant's \_Celtic Ireland\_).

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be, spread, see · **To what, where:** Ireland, map, Celtic Ireland

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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:pg7885:51:32
# text = If so, it is likely enough that it spread from Ireland through Europe with the Irish missions (for the wide extent of which see map in Mrs. Bryant's _Celtic Ireland_).
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
27	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
29	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Bryant	Bryant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Celtic	Celtic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | enough, likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | past | story |  |  | Ireland |  | through Europe; with the Irish missions | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through europe=Location |
| 3 | **see** | present |  | map |  | Mrs. Bryant's Celtic Ireland |  | for the wide extent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer map=Stimulus |

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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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