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title: The second form of the legend is always told as a moral apologue aga… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The second form of the legend is always told as a moral apologue against precipitate action, and originally occurred in _The Fables of Bidpai_ in its hundred and one forms, all founded on Buddhistic originals (_cf. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 26

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The second form of the legend is always told as a moral apologue against precipitate action, and originally occurred in \_The Fables of Bidpai\_ in its hundred and one forms, all founded on Buddhistic originals (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** tell, occur, form, found · **To what, where:** second form, Fables, all, Buddhistic originals, legend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one), 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:pg7885:55:26
# text = The second form of the legend is always told as a moral apologue against precipitate action, and originally occurred in _The Fables of Bidpai_ in its hundred and one forms, all founded on Buddhistic originals (_cf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	apologue	apologue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	precipitate	precipitate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
33	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Buddhistic	buddhistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	originals	original	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the second form of the legend |  |  |  | as a moral apologue against precipitate action; always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **occur** | participle |  |  |  | the Fables of Bidpai |  | in action's hundred; originally *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fable=Location |
| 3 | **form** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **found** | participle · passive |  | all |  | Buddhistic originals and cf |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on original=Source |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | the legend |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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