Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 30
Another property he had; his lance would produce a wound equal to those of nine opposing lances.
Who acts: property, lance · What happens: have, produce, oppose · To what, where: wound
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 (property, lance), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 property | det |
| 2 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 produce | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 produce | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 produce | aux |
| 9 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wound | det |
| 11 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 produce | obj |
| 12 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 produce | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 those | case |
| 14 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 equal | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lances | case |
| 16 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 lances | nummod |
| 17 | opposing | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 lances | amod |
| 18 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 those | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | another property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | produce | would | property's lance | a wound | equal property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Result | |||
| 3 | oppose | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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