Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 37
The _Celtic Magazine_ (vols. xii. and xiii.), while under the editorship of Mr. MacBain, contained several folk- and hero-tales in Gaelic, and so did the _Scotch Celtic Review_.
Who acts: folk · What happens: contain, tale, do · To what, where: editorship, Gaelic, Scotch Celtic Review
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 (folk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Magazine | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Magazine | punct |
| 3 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Magazine | amod |
| 4 | Magazine | Magazine | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 vols | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 vols | punct |
| 7 | vols | vol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Magazine | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 xii | punct |
| 9 | xii | xii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vols | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Magazine | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 xiii | cc |
| 12 | xiii | xiii | NUM | _ | 4 Magazine | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 xiii | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 xiii | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 contained | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 contained | mark |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 editorship | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 editorship | det |
| 19 | editorship | editorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 contained | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 MacBain | case |
| 21 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 MacBain | nmod:desc |
| 22 | MacBain | MacBain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 editorship | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 editorship | punct |
| 24 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 xiii | parataxis |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tales | amod |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tales | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 tales | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tales | cc |
| 29 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tales | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 hero | punct |
| 31 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 contained | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Gaelic | case |
| 33 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tales | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 did | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 did | cc |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 did | advmod |
| 37 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 contained | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Review | det |
| 39 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Scotch | compound |
| 40 | Scotch | Scotch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Review | compound |
| 41 | Celtic | Celtic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Review | compound |
| 42 | Review | Review | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 did | obj |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 did | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Magazine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | past | the editorship of MacBain Mr. | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | tale | folk | Gaelic | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the Scotch Celtic Review | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent review=Eventuality |
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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