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title: _Parallels_.--The only parallel in Celtdom is that noticed by Croker… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The only parallel in Celtdom is that noticed by Croker in his third volume, the legend of Partholan who killed his wife's greyhound from jealousy: this is found sculptured in stone at Ap Brune, co. Limerick. Who acts: Croker, legend, this. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph J
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 13

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\_Parallels\_.--The only parallel in Celtdom is that noticed by Croker in his third volume, the legend of Partholan who killed his wife's greyhound from jealousy: this is found sculptured in stone at Ap Brune, co. Limerick.

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**Who acts:** Croker, legend, this · **What happens:** notice, kill, find, sculpture · **To what, where:** Parallels, third volume, greyhound, jealousy, this, stone

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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 (Croker, legend, this), 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:pg7885:55:13
# text = _Parallels_.--The only parallel in Celtdom is that noticed by Croker in his third volume, the legend of Partholan who killed his wife's greyhound from jealousy: this is found sculptured in stone at Ap Brune, co. Limerick.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Celtdom	Celtdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Croker	Croker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Partholan	Partholan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
36	sculptured	sculpture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Ap	Ap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Brune	Brune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	co.	Co.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Limerick	Limerick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | present · passive | Croker | Parallels |  | Croker's third volume |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the legend of Partholan | Partholan's wife's greyhound |  | jealousy |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Theme from jealousy=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sculpture** | participle | this *not said here* |  |  | stone |  | at Ap Brune and co. Limerick | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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