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title: Cucullin's power-finger is another instance of the life-index or ext… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cucullin's power-finger is another instance of the life-index or external soul, on which see remarks on Sea-Maiden. Who acts: power finger, instance. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany., sentence 14

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Cucullin's power-finger is another instance of the life-index or external soul, on which see remarks on Sea-Maiden.

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**Who acts:** power finger, instance · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** instance, remarks, Sea

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power finger, instance), 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:pg7885:52:14
# text = Cucullin's power-finger is another instance of the life-index or external soul, on which see remarks on Sea-Maiden.
1	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	external	external	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cucullin's power finger | another instance |  |  |  | of the life index or external soul | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | another instance | remarks |  | Sea and Maiden |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remark=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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