Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 19
These are by an American gentleman named Curtin, _Myths and Folk-Tales of Ireland_, 1890; while Dr. Douglas Hyde has published in _Beside the Fireside_, 1891, spirited English versions of some of the stories he had published in the original Irish in his _Leabhar Sgeulaighteachta_, Dublin, 1889.
Who acts: These, Douglas, Ireland · What happens: be, name, publish, spirit, tell · To what, where: American gentleman, Fireside, English versions, stories, original Irish · 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 (These, Douglas, Ireland), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 gentleman | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gentleman | cop |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 gentleman | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gentleman | det |
| 5 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gentleman | amod |
| 6 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spirited | ccomp |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gentleman | acl |
| 8 | Curtin | Curtin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Myths | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Myths | punct |
| 11 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 gentleman | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Tales | cc |
| 13 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Folk | punct |
| 15 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Myths | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tales | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 1890 | punct |
| 20 | 1890 | 1890 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Tales | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 published | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 published | mark |
| 23 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Douglas | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Douglas | Douglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 published | nsubj |
| 25 | Hyde | Hyde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Douglas | flat |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 published | aux |
| 27 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 gentleman | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Fireside | case |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 in | punct |
| 30 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 32 Fireside | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fireside | det |
| 32 | Fireside | Fireside | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 published | obl |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Fireside | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 1891 | punct |
| 35 | 1891 | 1891 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Fireside | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentleman | punct |
| 37 | spirited | spirit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 versions | amod |
| 39 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 spirited | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 some | case |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 versions | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 stories | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 stories | det |
| 44 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 some | nmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 published | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 published | aux |
| 47 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 stories | acl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 Irish | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Irish | det |
| 50 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 Irish | amod |
| 51 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 published | obl |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 Dublin | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 Dublin | nmod:poss |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 59 Dublin | punct |
| 55 | Leabhar | Leabhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Dublin | compound |
| 56 | Sgeulaighteachta | Sgeulaighteachta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Leabhar | flat |
| 57 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 55 Leabhar | punct |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 Dublin | punct |
| 59 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Irish | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 1889 | punct |
| 61 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 59 Dublin | appos |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 spirited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | These | by a American gentleman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a American gentleman not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | publish | present · perfect | Douglas Dr. | a American gentleman not said here | the Fireside | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Result | |||
| 4 | spirit | past | English versions of some | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | publish | past · perfect | Douglas | the stories not said here | the original Irish | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | |||
| 6 | tell | Ireland | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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