Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 50
And Naois is head and shoulders over the rest of the people of Erin."
What happens: be · To what, where: Naois head, rest
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 head | cc |
| 2 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 head | compound |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 head | cop |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoulders | cc |
| 6 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 head | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 rest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rest | det |
| 9 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rest | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Erin | case |
| 14 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 people | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Naois head and shoulders | the rest of the people of Erin | tree rules |
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: «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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