Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 1
Shortly after the birth of Kilhuch, the son of King Kilyth, his mother died.
Who acts: mother · What happens: die
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 16 died | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 birth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birth | det |
| 4 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shortly | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kilhuch | case |
| 6 | Kilhuch | Kilhuch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 birth | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Kilhuch | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 12 | Kilyth | Kilyth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shortly | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | King's mother | shortly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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