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title: I pointed out an early instance of this, quoted by a Rabbi of the se… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I pointed out an early instance of this, quoted by a Rabbi of the second century, in my _Fables of Aesop_, i. 105. Who acts: I. 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 23

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I pointed out an early instance of this, quoted by a Rabbi of the second century, in my \_Fables of Aesop\_, i. 105.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** point out, quote, instance · **To what, where:** early instance, Fables, this

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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 (I), 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:pg7885:55:23
# text = I pointed out an early instance of this, quoted by a Rabbi of the second century, in my _Fables of Aesop_, i. 105.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Rabbi	Rabbi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	nsubj	_	_
28	105	105	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point out** | past | I | a early instance of this |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Patient |
| 2 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle |  | a early instance of this *not said here* |  | my Fables of Aesop |  | by a Rabbi of the second century | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **instance** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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