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title: The application of the general legend of "the man who slew his greyh… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The application of the general legend of "the man who slew his greyhound" to the dog Cylart, was due to the learning of E. Jones, author of the _Musical Relicks_. Who acts: man, application, general legend. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 64

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The application of the general legend of "the man who slew his greyhound" to the dog Cylart, was due to the learning of E. Jones, author of the \_Musical Relicks\_.

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**Who acts:** man, application, general legend · **What happens:** slay, be, apply · **To what, where:** greyhound

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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 (man, application, general 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:pg7885:55:64
# text = The application of the general legend of "the man who slew his greyhound" to the dog Cylart, was due to the learning of E. Jones, author of the _Musical Relicks_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	Cylart	Cylart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	Jones	Jones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Relicks	Relicks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** *in a quote* | past | the man | man's greyhound |  |  |  | to the dog | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the application of the general legend of the man |  |  |  |  | due the learning; of E. | tree rules |
| 3 | **apply** |  | the general legend of the man |  |  |  |  |  | nom application «act intransitive»: of=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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