--- title: There certainly was a local legend about a dog named Gelert at that… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There certainly was a local legend about a dog named Gelert at that place; E. Jones, in the first edition of his _Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards_, 1784, p. 40, gives the following _englyn_ or epigram: Who acts: local legend. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/55/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [XXI. Beth Gellert.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/55/) / 53 # Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 53 There certainly was a local legend about a dog named Gelert at that place; E. Jones, in the first edition of his \_Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards\_, 1784, p. 40, gives the following \_englyn\_ or epigram: **Who acts:** local legend · **What happens:** be, name, give, follow · **To what, where:** local legend, dog, place, englyn 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 (local legend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:55:53 # text = There certainly was a local legend about a dog named Gelert at that place; E. Jones, in the first edition of his _Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards_, 1784, p. 40, gives the following _englyn_ or epigram: 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 Gelert Gelert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 E. E. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 17 Jones Jones PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 edition edition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Relicks relick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Welsh Welsh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Bards Bard PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 1784 1784 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 37 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 39 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 obj _ _ 42 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 englyn englyn X FW Foreign=Yes 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 43 punct _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 epigram epigram NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | a local legend and E. and the first edition of E.'s Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards 1784 p. | | | | about a dog; certainly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **name** | participle | | a dog *not said here* | | that place | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | present | a local legend and E. and the first edition of E.'s Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards 1784 p. | englyn or epigram | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent englyn=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/55/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/55/54/) - ↑ back to [XXI. 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