Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 58

Tales told of Finn of Cuchulain, and therefore coming under the definition of hero-tales, are found elsewhere told of anonymous or unknown heroes.

What happens: tell, come, find, define · To what, where: Tales, Finn, definition, hero tales · 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: 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	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 found	nsubj:pass
2	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tales	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Finn	case
4	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Cuchulain	case
6	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Finn	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 coming	cc
9	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	10 coming	advmod
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 definition	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 definition	det
13	definition	definition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 tales	case
15	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tales	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 hero	punct
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 definition	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tales	punct
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 found	aux:pass
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 found	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 heroes	case
24	anonymous	anonymous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 heroes	amod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 unknown	cc
26	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 anonymous	conj
27	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 told	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle	Tales not said here	Finn of Cuchulain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent finn=Recipient
2	come	gerund			the definition of hero tales	therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under definition=Location
3	find	present · passive	Tales				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	participle				of anonymous heroes; elsewhere property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	define		hero tales				nom definition «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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