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title: _Parallels_.--Kennedy's "Fion MacCuil and the Scotch Giant," _Legend. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Kennedy's "Fion MacCuil and the Scotch Giant," _Legend. 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 2

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\_Parallels\_.--Kennedy's "Fion MacCuil and the Scotch Giant," \_Legend.

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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: 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:pg7885:52:2
# text = _Parallels_.--Kennedy's "Fion MacCuil and the Scotch Giant," _Legend.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Fion	Fion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	MacCuil	MacCuil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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