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title: The _Culex_ attributed to Virgil seems to be another variant of this. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Culex_ attributed to Virgil seems to be another variant of this. Who acts: Culex. 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 25

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The \_Culex\_ attributed to Virgil seems to be another variant of this.

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**Who acts:** Culex · **What happens:** attribute, seem, be · **To what, where:** Culex, Virgil, variant

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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 (Culex), 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:pg7885:55:25
# text = The _Culex_ attributed to Virgil seems to be another variant of this.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Culex	culex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
5	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Virgil	Virgil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attribute** | participle |  | the Culex *not said here* | Virgil |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the Culex |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Culex *not said here* | another variant |  |  |  | of this | tree rules |

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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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