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title: The cairn was thus a monument of a "record" run of a greyhound: the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The cairn was thus a monument of a "record" run of a greyhound: the _englyn_ quoted by Jones is suitable enough for this, while quite inadequate to record the later legendary exploits of Gelert. Who acts: cairn, englyn. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with it
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 67

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The cairn was thus a monument of a "record" run of a greyhound: the \_englyn\_ quoted by Jones is suitable enough for this, while quite inadequate to record the later legendary exploits of Gelert.

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**Who acts:** cairn, englyn · **What happens:** be, quote, record, run · **To what, where:** monument, later legendary exploits, 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 (cairn, englyn), 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:pg7885:55:67
# text = The cairn was thus a monument of a "record" run of a greyhound: the _englyn_ quoted by Jones is suitable enough for this, while quite inadequate to record the later legendary exploits of Gelert.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	englyn	englyn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
21	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Jones	Jones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
32	inadequate	inadequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	record	record	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	csubj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
37	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	exploits	exploit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the cairn | a monument |  |  |  | of a record run of a greyhound; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Jones | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | englyn |  |  |  |  | for this; enough, suitable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | englyn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **record** | to-infinitive |  | the later legendary exploits of Gelert |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exploit=Theme |
| 6 | **run** |  |  | a greyhound |  |  |  |  | nom run «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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