Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 6
Oonagh, or rather Fin, lived at this time on the very tip-top of Knockmany Hill, which faces a cousin of its own called Cullamore, that rises up, half-hill, half-mountain, on the opposite side.
Who acts: Oonagh, tip top, that · What happens: live, face, call, rise up · To what, where: tip top, cousin, half hill · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Oonagh, tip top, that), 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 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fin | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 Fin | cc |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 Fin | advmod |
| 5 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oonagh | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oonagh | punct |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 top | advmod |
| 14 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 top | punct |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Hill | case |
| 18 | Knockmany | Knockmany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Hill | compound |
| 19 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 faces | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 faces | nsubj |
| 22 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 top | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cousin | det |
| 24 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 faces | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 own | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 own | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cousin | nmod |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 cousin | acl |
| 29 | Cullamore | Cullamore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 called | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rises | punct |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 rises | nsubj |
| 32 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cousin | parataxis |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 rises | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hill | punct |
| 35 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 37 hill | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 half | punct |
| 37 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rises | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 mountain | punct |
| 39 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 41 mountain | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 half | punct |
| 41 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hill | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 side | punct |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 side | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 side | det |
| 45 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 side | amod |
| 46 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rises | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Oonagh | the tip top of Knockmany Hill | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location | |||
| 2 | face | present | the tip top of Knockmany Hill | a cousin of cousin's own | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cousin=Destination | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a cousin of cousin's own not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise up | present | that | half hill and half mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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