More English Fairy Tales, LIV. Gobborn Seer, sentence 3
It is to be remarked that "Gobborn Seer" is Irish (Goban Saor = free carpenter), and is the Irish equivalent of Wayland Smith, and occurs in several place names in Ireland.
Who acts: Gobborn Seer · What happens: remark, be, occur · To what, where: Source, Irish equivalent, several place names
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gobborn Seer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remarked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remarked | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 remarked | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remarked | aux:pass |
| 5 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 Irish | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Seer | punct |
| 8 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Seer | compound |
| 9 | Seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Irish | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Seer | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Irish | cop |
| 12 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remarked | advcl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Goban | punct |
| 14 | Goban | Goban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Irish | obl |
| 15 | Saor | Saor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Goban | flat |
| 16 | = | = | SYM | _ | 18 carpenter | punct |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carpenter | amod |
| 18 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Goban | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 carpenter | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 equivalent | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 equivalent | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 equivalent | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 equivalent | det |
| 24 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 equivalent | amod |
| 25 | equivalent | equivalent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remarked | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Wayland | case |
| 27 | Wayland | Wayland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 equivalent | nmod |
| 28 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Wayland | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 occurs | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 occurs | cc |
| 31 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remarked | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 names | case |
| 33 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 names | amod |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 names | compound |
| 35 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 occurs | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Ireland | case |
| 37 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 names | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | present · passive | Source | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Gobborn Seer | Goban obl; irish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Irish equivalent | of Wayland | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | occur | present | several place names in Ireland | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in name=Location |
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.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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