Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 18
More recently two collectors have published stories gathered from peasants of the West and North who can only speak Gaelic.
Who acts: peasants · What happens: publish, gather, speak · To what, where: two collectors, stories, Gaelic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants), 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 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 recently | advmod |
| 2 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 6 published | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 collectors | nummod |
| 4 | collectors | collector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 published | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 published | aux |
| 6 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 published | obj |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stories | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 peasants | case |
| 10 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 West | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 West | det |
| 13 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 peasants | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 North | cc |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 West | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 speak | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 speak | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 speak | advmod |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 peasants | acl:relcl |
| 20 | Gaelic | Gaelic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 speak | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | present · perfect · passive | two collectors | recently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gather | participle | stories not said here | from peasants of the West and North | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from peasant=Source | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | can | peasants of the West and North | Gaelic | tree rules |
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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