Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 1

_Source_.--From the old Irish "Echtra Condla chaim maic Cuind Chetchathaig" of the _Leabhar na h-Uidhre_ ("Book of the Dun Cow"), which must have been written before 1106, when its scribe Maelmori ("Servant of Mary") was murdered.

What happens: write, murder · To what, where: old Irish Echtra chaim maic, scribe

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.. 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.

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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
2	Source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
4	.--	.--	SYM	_	2 Source	discourse
5	From	from	ADP	_	13 maic	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maic	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maic	amod
8	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maic	amod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Echtra	punct
10	Echtra	Echtra	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maic	compound
11	Condla	Condla	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Echtra	flat
12	chaim	chaim	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maic	compound
13	maic	maic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 .--	obl
14	Cuind	Cuind	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maic	appos
15	Chetchathaig	Chetchathaig	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Cuind	flat
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Cuind	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Leabhar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Leabhar	det
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 Leabhar	punct
20	Leabhar	Leabhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maic	nmod
21	na	na	X	_	22 h	compound
22	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Leabhar	appos
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Uidhre	punct
24	Uidhre	Uidhre	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 h	appos
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 maic	punct
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 Book	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Book	punct
28	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maic	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Cow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Cow	det
31	Dun	Dun	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Cow	compound
32	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Book	nmod
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Cow	punct
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 Book	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 written	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 written	obj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 written	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 written	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 written	aux:pass
40	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 maic	parataxis
41	before	before	ADP	_	42 1106	case
42	1106	1106	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 written	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 murdered	punct
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	56 murdered	advmod
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 scribe	nmod:poss
46	scribe	scribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 murdered	nsubj:pass
47	Maelmori	Maelmori	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 scribe	appos
48	(	(	PUNCT	_	50 Servant	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 Servant	punct
50	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 scribe	appos
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 Mary	case
52	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Servant	nmod
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 Servant	punct
54	)	)	PUNCT	_	50 Servant	punct
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 murdered	aux:pass
56	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 written	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	must · perfect · passive		the old Irish Echtra chaim maic of the Leabhar			before 1106		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme
2	murder	past · passive		h's scribe					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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