Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 1

There once lived a Munachar and a Manachar, a long time ago, and it is a long time since it was, and if they were alive now they would not be alive then.

Who acts: Manachar, Munachar · What happens: live, be, not be · To what, where: Munachar, long time

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manachar, Munachar), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Munachar	det
5	Munachar	Munachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Manachar	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Manachar	det
8	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Munachar	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ago	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ago	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 time	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 time	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 time	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
21	since	since	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 was	nsubj
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 alive	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 alive	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 alive	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 alive	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 alive	cop
29	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 alive	advcl
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 alive	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 alive	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 alive	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 alive	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 alive	cop
35	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	conj
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a Munachar and a Manachar	there	then	ago, once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme munachar=Location
2	is a	present	Manachar	a long time				tree rules
3	be	past	Manachar					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Munachar			now	alive property	tree rules
5	not is	would	Munachar				alive property	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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