Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 17
Zimmer's paper contains three other accounts of the _terra repromissionis_ in the Irish sagas, one of them being the similar adventure of Cormac the nephew of Connla, or Condla Ruad as he should be called.
Who acts: paper, accounts · What happens: contain, be, call, account · To what, where: three other accounts, paper, terra repromissionis · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (paper, accounts), 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 | Zimmer | zimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paper | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Zimmer | case |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 accounts | nummod |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 accounts | amod |
| 7 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contains | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 repromissionis | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 repromissionis | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 repromissionis | punct |
| 11 | terra | terra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repromissionis | compound |
| 12 | repromissionis | repromissionis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accounts | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 sagas | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sagas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sagas | det |
| 16 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sagas | amod |
| 17 | sagas | saga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 accounts | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sagas | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 adventure | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 adventure | nsubj |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 adventure | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 adventure | det |
| 24 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 adventure | amod |
| 25 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Cormac | case |
| 27 | Cormac | Cormac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 adventure | nmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 nephew | det |
| 29 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 adventure | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Connla | case |
| 31 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 nephew | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Ruad | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 Ruad | cc |
| 34 | Condla | Condla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Ruad | compound |
| 35 | Ruad | Ruad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Connla | conj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 called | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 called | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 called | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 called | aux:pass |
| 40 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 Ruad | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Zimmer's paper | three other accounts of the terra repromissionis and the Irish sagas | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | accounts = account | of the similar adventure; of Cormac | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | should · passive | paper | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | account | the terra repromissionis | nom account «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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