Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 124

And a race of men came and rooted it up.

Who acts: race, men · What happens: come, root up, race · To what, where: race

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 (race, men), 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	_	6 came	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 race	det
3	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 men	case
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 race	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rooted	cc
8	rooted	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rooted	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 rooted	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	a race of men		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	root up	past	a race of men not said here	race	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	race		men		nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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