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title: S. Beal gave the earliest known version from the Chinese translation… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: S. Beal gave the earliest known version from the Chinese translation of the _Vinaya Pitaka_ in the _Academy_ of Nov. 4, 1882. Who acts: S., Vinaya Pitaka. 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 20

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S. Beal gave the earliest known version from the Chinese translation of the \_Vinaya Pitaka\_ in the \_Academy\_ of Nov. 4, 1882.

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**Who acts:** S., Vinaya Pitaka · **What happens:** give, know, translate · **To what, where:** earliest known version, Chinese translation

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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 (S., Vinaya Pitaka), 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:pg7885:55:20
# text = S. Beal gave the earliest known version from the Chinese translation of the _Vinaya Pitaka_ in the _Academy_ of Nov. 4, 1882.
1	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Beal	Beal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Vinaya	Vinaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Pitaka	Pitaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Academy	Academy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Nov.	November	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	1882	1882	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | S. | the earliest known version |  | the Chinese translation of the Vinaya Pitaka |  | in the \_ Academy \_ of 4  Nov. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **translate** |  | the Vinaya Pitaka |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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