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title: Jones found an _englyn_ devoted to _an_ exploit of a dog named Cylar… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jones found an _englyn_ devoted to _an_ exploit of a dog named Cylart, and chose to interpret it in his second edition, 1794, as _the_ exploit of a greyhound with which all the world (in Wales) were acquainted. Who acts: Jones, world. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Ge
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 68

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Jones found an \_englyn\_ devoted to \_an\_ exploit of a dog named Cylart, and chose to interpret it in his second edition, 1794, as \_the\_ exploit of a greyhound with which all the world (in Wales) were acquainted.

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**Who acts:** Jones, world · **What happens:** find, devote, \_, name, choose, interpret · **To what, where:** englyn, \_ exploit, dog, cairn, second edition

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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 (Jones, world), 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:pg7885:55:68
# text = Jones found an _englyn_ devoted to _an_ exploit of a dog named Cylart, and chose to interpret it in his second edition, 1794, as _the_ exploit of a greyhound with which all the world (in Wales) were acquainted.
1	Jones	Jones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	englyn	englyn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
7	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	_	_	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	exploit	exploit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	Cylart	Cylart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	interpret	interpret	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	1794	1794	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	exploit	exploit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Jones | a englyn |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent englyn=Topic |
| 2 | **devote** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **\_** | infinitive |  | a \_ exploit of a dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **choose** | past | Jones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **interpret** | to-infinitive | Jones *not said here* | cairn |  | Jones's second edition |  | as the \_ exploit of a greyhound | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as exploit=Attribute |
| 7 | **is** | past | all world |  |  |  |  | with a greyhound; acquainted *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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