Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 39

Only the _byline_, or hero-songs of Russia, equal in extent the amount of knowledge about the heroes of the past that still exists among the Gaelic-speaking peasantry of Scotland and Ireland.

Who acts: past, Russia · What happens: exist, speak, sing, amount · To what, where: speaking peasantry, knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (past, Russia), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 byline	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 byline	det
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 byline	punct
4	byline	byline	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 byline	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 songs	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 songs	cc
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 songs	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hero	punct
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 byline	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Russia	case
12	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 songs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 equal	punct
14	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 songs	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 extent	case
16	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 equal	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 amount	det
18	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 extent	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 knowledge	case
20	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 amount	nmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 heroes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heroes	det
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 knowledge	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 past	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 past	det
26	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heroes	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 exists	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 exists	advmod
29	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 past	acl:relcl
30	among	among	ADP	_	35 peasantry	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 peasantry	det
32	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 speaking	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Gaelic	punct
34	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 peasantry	amod
35	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 exists	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Scotland	case
37	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 peasantry	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Ireland	cc
39	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Scotland	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 byline	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	exist	present	the past		the speaking peasantry of Scotland and Ireland	still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among peasantry=Location
2	speak speech: other	gerund					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing		Russia				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
4	amount			knowledge about the heroes of the past			nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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