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title: They might almost have been present at the birth of the legend, whic… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They might almost have been present at the birth of the legend, which, if my affiliation of it is correct, is not yet quite 100 years old. Who acts: legend, affiliation. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 94

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They might almost have been present at the birth of the legend, which, if my affiliation of it is correct, is not yet quite 100 years old.

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**Who acts:** legend, affiliation · **What happens:** present, be, not be, affiliate · **To what, where:** Carlisle, birth

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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 (legend, affiliation), 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:pg7885:55:94
# text = They might almost have been present at the birth of the legend, which, if my affiliation of it is correct, is not yet quite 100 years old.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	present	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	affiliation	affiliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | might · perfect · passive |  | Carlisle |  | the birth of the legend |  | almost *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the legend |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  | yet; year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **affiliate** |  | affiliation |  |  |  |  |  | nom affiliation «state 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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