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title: But first it may be desirable to point out why it is necessary to as… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But first it may be desirable to point out why it is necessary to assume that the legend is a legend and not a fact. Who acts: legend. 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 40

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But first it may be desirable to point out why it is necessary to assume that the legend is a legend and not a fact.

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**Who acts:** legend · **What happens:** be, point out, assume · **To what, where:** legend

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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 (legend), 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:pg7885:55:40
# text = But first it may be desirable to point out why it is necessary to assume that the legend is a legend and not a fact.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	desirable	desirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | legend |  |  |  |  | desirable, first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **point out** | to-infinitive | legend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | legend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **assume** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the legend | a legend and a fact |  |  |  |  | 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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