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title: Mr. Spencer got his account; oral tradition does not indulge in date… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Spencer got his account; oral tradition does not indulge in dates _Anno Domini_. Who acts: Mr., oral tradition. 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 63

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Mr. Spencer got his account; oral tradition does not indulge in dates \_Anno Domini\_.

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**Who acts:** Mr., oral tradition · **What happens:** get, not indulge, account · **To what, where:** account, Anno, dates

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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 (Mr., oral tradition), 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:pg7885:55:63
# text = Mr. Spencer got his account; oral tradition does not indulge in dates _Anno Domini_.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	indulge	indulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Anno	Anno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	Domini	Domini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Mr. | Mr.'s account |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **indulge** | present · do-support | oral tradition | Anno |  | dates |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **account** |  | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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