Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 59

The question is, were the folk-tales the earliest, and were they localised and applied to the heroes, or were the heroic sagas generalised and applied to an unknown [Greek: tis]?

Who acts: question · What happens: be, localise, apply, generalise · To what, where: question, folk tales, tales, heroic sagas

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 (question), 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	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tales	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 question	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tales	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tales	det
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tales	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 folk	punct
9	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earliest	det
11	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 tales	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 localised	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 localised	cc
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 localised	aux:pass
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 localised	nsubj
16	localised	localise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tales	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 applied	cc
18	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 localised	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 heroes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heroes	det
21	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 applied	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sagas	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 sagas	cc
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sagas	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sagas	det
26	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sagas	amod
27	sagas	saga	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tales	conj
28	generalised	generalise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sagas	acl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 applied	cc
30	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 generalised	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 unknown	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 unknown	det
33	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 applied	obl
34	[	[	PUNCT	_	35 Greek	punct
35	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 generalised	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 tis	punct
37	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tales	nmod
38	]	]	PUNCT	_	37 tis	punct
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tales	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the question		tree rules
2	is a	past	the question	the folk tales or the heroic sagas	the earliest nmod; tis nmod	tree rules
3	localise	past · passive		tales = tale		tree rules
4	apply	participle			to the heroes	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the question not said here	the heroic sagas		tree rules
6	generalise	participle		the heroic sagas not said here		tree rules
7	apply	participle			to a unknown	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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