Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 37
He was nephew to Arthur, the son of his sister, and his cousin.
Who acts: Kynthelig · What happens: be · To what, where: nephew, Arthur
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 (Kynthelig), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nephew | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nephew | cop |
| 3 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Arthur | case |
| 5 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nephew | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Arthur | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sister | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cousin | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cousin | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nephew | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nephew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kynthelig | nephew and Kynthelig's cousin | Arthur | 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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