Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 25

The _Book of Leinster_, an Irish vellum of the twelfth century, contains a list of 189 of these hero-tales, many of which are extant to this day; E. O'Curry gives the list in the Appendix to his MS. _Materials of Irish History_.

Who acts: Book, many, E. · What happens: contain, be, give, list · To what, where: list, MS., Appendix, hero tales

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 (Book, many, E.), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Book	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Book	punct
3	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 contains	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Leinster	case
5	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Book	nmod
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Book	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vellum	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 vellum	det
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vellum	amod
10	vellum	vellum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Book	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 century	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 century	det
13	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 century	amod
14	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vellum	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Book	punct
16	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 list	det
18	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 contains	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 189	case
20	189	189	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 list	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 tales	case
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 tales	det
23	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tales	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 hero	punct
25	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 list	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 extant	punct
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 extant	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 many	nmod
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 extant	cop
31	extant	extant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tales	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 day	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 extant	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 gives	punct
36	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gives	nsubj
37	O'Curry	O'Curry	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 E.	flat
38	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 contains	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 list	det
40	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gives	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 Appendix	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Appendix	det
43	Appendix	Appendix	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 list	nmod
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 MS.	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 MS.	nmod:poss
46	MS.	MS.	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gives	obl
47	_	_	PUNCT	_	48 Materials	punct
48	Materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gives	parataxis
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 History	case
50	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 History	amod
51	History	History	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Materials	nmod
52	_	_	PUNCT	_	48 Materials	punct
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 contains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	the Book of Leinster	a list of 189 of this hero tales					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot list=Theme
2	is	present	many				day	extant property	tree rules
3	give	present	E.	the list	E.'s MS.	the Appendix			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent list=Theme to ms.=Recipient
4	list			this hero tales					nom list «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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