Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 38

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 large	advmod
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Nowhere	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 large	cop
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 consistent	cc
8	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 large	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 large	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tradition	case
12	oral	oral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tradition	amod
13	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 body	nmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	19 heroes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heroes	det
16	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heroes	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mythical	cc
18	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 national	conj
19	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tradition	nmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 Gaels	case
21	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	23 Gaels	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Gaels	det
23	Gaels	Gael	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 heroes	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						large, nowhere property	tree rules
2	be								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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