Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 7

There was at that time another giant, named Cucullin--some say he was Irish, and some say he was Scotch--but whether Scotch or Irish, sorrow doubt of it but he was a targer.

Who acts: named Cucullin, Cucullin, some · What happens: be, name, say, doubt · To what, where: time, targer, doubt · 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 (named Cucullin, Cucullin, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 Cucullin	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 named	compound
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 giant	punct
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Cucullin	amod
10	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Irish	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Irish	cop
16	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 say	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Scotch	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Scotch	cop
23	Scotch	scotch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 say	ccomp
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 Scotch	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 Scotch	cc
26	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 Scotch	mark
27	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	ccomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 Irish	cc
29	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Scotch	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 doubt	punct
31	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 doubt	compound
32	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Scotch	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 doubt	nmod
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 targer	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 targer	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 targer	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 targer	det
39	targer	targer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Scotch	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	name	participle						vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	another named Cucullin	that time not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=Topic
4	is	past	Cucullin				irish property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	some					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Cucullin				scotch property	tree rules
7	is a	past	Cucullin	a targer				tree rules
8	doubt			doubt				nom doubt «cognition 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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