Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 52
From this survey of the field of Celtic folk-tales it is clear that Ireland and Scotland provide the lion's share.
Who acts: Ireland, lion · What happens: be, provide, survey, share · To what, where: survey, share, field
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 (Ireland, lion), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 survey | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 survey | det |
| 3 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clear | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 survey | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 field | nmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clear | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 clear | cop |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 provide | mark |
| 16 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 provide | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Scotland | cc |
| 18 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ireland | conj |
| 19 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 clear | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lion | det |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 share | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 lion | case |
| 23 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 provide | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this survey of the field of Celtic folk tales | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | provide | present | Ireland and Scotland | the lion's share | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition share=Theme | ||||
| 3 | survey | the field of Celtic folk tales | nom survey «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | share | the lion | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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