Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 22

But beside these more modern collections there exist in old and middle Irish a large number of hero-tales (class 2) which formed the staple of the old _ollahms_ or bards.

Who acts: modern collections · What happens: exist, form · To what, where: Irish large number, staple

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 (modern collections), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 exist	cc
2	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 collections	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 collections	det
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 modern	advmod
5	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 collections	amod
6	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 exist	nsubj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 collections	advmod
8	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 old	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Irish	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 middle	cc
12	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 old	conj
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 number	amod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 number	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 number	amod
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exist	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 tales	case
18	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tales	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 hero	punct
20	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 number	nmod
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 class	punct
22	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tales	appos
23	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 class	flat
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 class	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 formed	nsubj
26	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 exist	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 staple	det
28	staple	staple	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 formed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 ollahms	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ollahms	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ollahms	amod
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 old	punct
33	ollahms	ollahm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 staple	nmod
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 ollahms	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 bards	cc
36	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ollahms	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 exist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	this modern collections	a Irish large number of hero tales					tree rules
2	form	past		the staple of the old ollahms or bards					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location staple=Theme

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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