Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 23

Of these tales of "cattle-liftings, elopements, battles, voyages, courtships, caves, lakes, feasts, sieges, and eruptions," a bard of even the fourth class had to know seven fifties, presumably one for each day of the year.

Who acts: bard, cattle liftings · What happens: have, know, tell · To what, where: seven fifties · 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 (bard, cattle liftings), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 tales	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 tales	det
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 liftings	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 liftings	punct
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 liftings	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 cattle	punct
8	liftings	lifting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tales	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 elopements	punct
10	elopements	elopement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 battles	punct
12	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 voyages	punct
14	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 courtships	punct
16	courtships	courtship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caves	punct
18	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lakes	punct
20	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feasts	punct
22	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sieges	punct
24	sieges	siege	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liftings	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eruptions	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eruptions	cc
27	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tales	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bard	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 bard	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bard	det
31	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 class	case
33	even	even	ADV	_	36 class	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 class	det
35	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 class	amod
36	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bard	nmod
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	to	to	PART	_	39 know	mark
39	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 fifties	nummod
41	fifties	fifty	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 know	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 one	punct
43	presumably	presumably	ADV	_	44 one	advmod
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 fifties	appos
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 day	case
46	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	47 day	det
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 one	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 year	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 year	det
50	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 day	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a bard of the fourth class		of this tales of cattle liftings and elopements and battles and voyages and courtships and caves and lakes and feasts and sieges and eruptions	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive	a bard of the fourth class not said here	seven fifties		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fifty=Stimulus
3	tell		cattle liftings and elopements and battles and voyages and courtships and caves and lakes and feasts and sieges			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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