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title: That the Gellert legend, before it was localised, was used as a mora… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That the Gellert legend, before it was localised, was used as a moral apologue in Wales is shown by the fact that it occurs among the Fables of Cattwg, which are all of that character. Who acts: fact, legend. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependenc
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 43

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That the Gellert legend, before it was localised, was used as a moral apologue in Wales is shown by the fact that it occurs among the Fables of Cattwg, which are all of that character.

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**Who acts:** fact, legend · **What happens:** localise, use, show, occur · **To what, where:** legend, Gellert legend, moral apologue, fact

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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 (fact, 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:pg7885:55:43
# text = That the Gellert legend, before it was localised, was used as a moral apologue in Wales is shown by the fact that it occurs among the Fables of Cattwg, which are all of that character.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	localised	localise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	apologue	apologue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Cattwg	Cattwg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **localise** | past · passive |  | legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past · passive |  | that Gellert legend |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **show** | present · passive | the fact | a moral apologue in Wales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **occur** | present | legend | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  | among the Fables of Cattwg | 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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