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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 60

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From this incident is elicited a very common Welsh proverb \[that given above which occurs also in 'The Fables of Cattwg;' it will be observed that it is quite indefinite.\]" "

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**Who acts:** common Welsh proverb, proverb · **What happens:** elicit, give, occur, observe, be · **To what, where:** common Welsh proverb, incident, Fables, proverb

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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 (common Welsh proverb, proverb), 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:pg7885:55:60
# text = From this incident is elicited a very common Welsh proverb [that given above which occurs also in 'The Fables of Cattwg;' it will be observed that it is quite indefinite.]" "
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	elicited	elicit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Cattwg	Cattwg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	indefinite	indefinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elicit** | present · passive |  | a common Welsh proverb |  | this incident |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: proverb=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | participle · passive | a common Welsh proverb *not said here* | a common Welsh proverb |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **occur** | present |  |  |  | the Fables of Cattwg |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fable=Location |
| 4 | **observe** | future · passive |  | proverb |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present | proverb |  |  |  |  | indefinite *property* | 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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