Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 40
And the Irish tales and ballads have this peculiarity, that some of them have been extant, and can be traced, for well nigh a thousand years.
Who acts: Irish tales, some · What happens: have, be, trace · To what, where: peculiarity
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 (Irish tales, some), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 3 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ballads | cc |
| 6 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tales | conj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 peculiarity | det |
| 9 | peculiarity | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 extant | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 extant | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 extant | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 some | nmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 extant | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 extant | cop |
| 17 | extant | extant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 have | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 traced | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 traced | cc |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 traced | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 traced | aux:pass |
| 22 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 extant | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 years | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 nigh | advmod |
| 26 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 28 thousand | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 thousand | det |
| 28 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 traced | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Irish tales and ballads | this peculiarity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peculiarity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | some | extant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trace | can · passive | some not said here | year | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP» |
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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