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title: The spread in the Buddhistic world, and thence to the South Seas and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The spread in the Buddhistic world, and thence to the South Seas and Madagascar, would be secondary from India. Who acts: spread. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 19

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The spread in the Buddhistic world, and thence to the South Seas and Madagascar, would be secondary from India.

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**Who acts:** spread · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** India

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spread), 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:pg7885:58:19
# text = The spread in the Buddhistic world, and thence to the South Seas and Madagascar, would be secondary from India.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Buddhistic	Buddhistic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Seas	Sea	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the spread in the Buddhistic world |  |  | India |  | secondary *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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