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title: But whether Kellarth, Kelert, Cylart, Gelert or Gellert ever existed… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But whether Kellarth, Kelert, Cylart, Gelert or Gellert ever existed and ran a hart from Carnarvon to Bedd Gellert or no, there can be little doubt after the preceding that he was not the original hero of the fable of "the man that slew his greyhound," which came to Wales from Buddhistic India throu
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 82

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But whether Kellarth, Kelert, Cylart, Gelert or Gellert ever existed and ran a hart from Carnarvon to Bedd Gellert or no, there can be little doubt after the preceding that he was not the original hero of the fable of "the man that slew his greyhound," which came to Wales from Buddhistic India through channels which are perfectly traceable.

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**Who acts:** Kellarth, man, preceding original hero, channels · **What happens:** exist, run, precede, not be, slay, come · **To what, where:** hart, Bedd, Carnarvon, greyhound, Wales, channels

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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 (Kellarth, man, preceding original hero, channels), 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:pg7885:55:82
# text = But whether Kellarth, Kelert, Cylart, Gelert or Gellert ever existed and ran a hart from Carnarvon to Bedd Gellert or no, there can be little doubt after the preceding that he was not the original hero of the fable of "the man that slew his greyhound," which came to Wales from Buddhistic India through channels which are perfectly traceable.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	Kellarth	Kellarth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Kelert	Kelert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Cylart	Cylart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hart	hart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Carnarvon	Carnarvon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Bedd	Bedd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
33	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	amod	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	Buddhistic	Buddhistic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
61	through	through	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
63	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	66	nsubj	_	_
64	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	66	cop	_	_
65	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	traceable	traceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | past | Kellarth and Kelert and Cylart and Gelert or Gellert |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | Kellarth and Kelert and Cylart and Gelert or Gellert *not said here* | a hart | Bedd | Carnarvon |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent hart=Theme from carnarvon=Initial\_Location to bedd=Destination |
| 3 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Kellarth |  |  |  | after the preceding original hero | of the fable of the man | tree rules |
| 5 | **slay** *in a quote* | past | the man | Carnarvon's greyhound |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient |
| 6 | **come** | past | the preceding original hero |  | Wales from Buddhistic India | channels |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to wales=Initial\_Location through channel=Destination |
| 7 | **is** | present | channels |  |  |  |  | perfectly, traceable *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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