Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 146
But he wasted the fifth part of Ireland, and then set forth through the sea to Wales.
Who acts: dog · What happens: waste, set · To what, where: fifth part, Wales, sea
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 (dog), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 wasted | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wasted | nsubj |
| 3 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 5 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 part | amod |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wasted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ireland | case |
| 8 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 set | advmod |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wasted | conj |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Wales | case |
| 18 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | past | dog | the fifth part of Ireland | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | dog not said here | Wales | the sea | then | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through sea=Destination |
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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