Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 1
In Treneglwys there is a certain shepherd's cot known by the name of Twt y Cymrws because of the strange strife that occurred there.
Who acts: cot, strange strife · What happens: be, know, y, occur, name · To what, where: cot, Cymrws, Twt
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cot, strange strife), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Treneglwys | case |
| 2 | Treneglwys | Treneglwys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 is | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cot | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shepherd | det |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shepherd | amod |
| 7 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 shepherd | case |
| 9 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 y | nsubj |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cot | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 name | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 known | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Twt | case |
| 15 | Twt | Twt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod |
| 16 | y | y | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Cymrws | Cymrws | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 y | obj |
| 18 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 strife | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 because | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 strife | det |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 strife | amod |
| 22 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 y | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 occurred | nsubj |
| 24 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 strife | acl:relcl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 occurred | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 y | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a certain shepherd's cot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | participle | a certain shepherd's cot not said here | by the name of Twt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | y | past | a certain shepherd's cot | Cymrws | because the strange strife | tree rules | |||
| 4 | occur | past | the strange strife | there | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | Twt | nom name «communication 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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