Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 1
What Irish man, woman, or child has not heard of our renowned Hibernian Hercules, the great and glorious Fin M'Coul?
Who acts: child · What happens: not hear · To what, where: Irish man
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 man | nsubj |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 heard | advmod |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 man | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hercules | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Hercules | nmod:poss |
| 14 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Hercules | amod |
| 15 | Hibernian | Hibernian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hercules | compound |
| 16 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 M'Coul | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 M'Coul | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 M'Coul | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glorious | cc |
| 21 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 great | conj |
| 22 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 M'Coul | compound |
| 23 | M'Coul | M'Coul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hercules | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | present · perfect | child | Irish man and woman not said here | of our renowned Hibernian Hercules and the great Fin M'Coul | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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