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title: Borrow in his _Wild Wales_, p. 146, gives the legend, but does not p… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Borrow in his _Wild Wales_, p. 146, gives the legend, but does not profess to derive it from local tradition. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 12

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Borrow in his \_Wild Wales\_, p. 146, gives the legend, but does not profess to derive it from local tradition.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** borrow, give, not profess, derive · **To what, where:** \_ Wild Wales, legend, local tradition

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7885:55:12
# text = Borrow in his _Wild Wales_, p. 146, gives the legend, but does not profess to derive it from local tradition.
1	Borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	146	146	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	profess	profess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	derive	derive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Tour's \_ Wild Wales and p. |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present |  | the legend |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **profess** | present · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **derive** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | legend |  | local tradition |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Result from tradition=Material |

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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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