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Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 20

On the day of his birth the five great roads from Tara to all parts of Ireland were completed: one of them from Dublin is still used.

What happens: complete, use · To what, where: five great roads, Dublin

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

casedetoblcasenmod:possnmoddetnummodamodnsubj:passcasenmodcasedetnmodcasenmodaux:passpunctparataxiscasenmodcaseoblaux:passadvmodconjpunctrootOnADPtheDETdayNOUNofADPhisPRONbirthNOUNtheDETfiveNUMgreatADJroadsNOUNfromADPTaraPROPNtoADPallDETpartsNOUNofADPIrelandPROPNwereAUXcompletedVERB:PUNCToneNUMofADPthemPRONfromADPDublinPROPNisAUXstillADVusedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_3 daycase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 daydet
3daydayNOUNNumber=Sing19 completedobl
4ofofADP_6 birthcase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 birthnmod:poss
6birthbirthNOUNNumber=Sing3 daynmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 roadsdet
8fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card10 roadsnummod
9greatgreatADJDegree=Pos10 roadsamod
10roadsroadNOUNNumber=Plur19 completednsubj:pass
11fromfromADP_12 Taracase
12TaraTaraPROPNNumber=Sing10 roadsnmod
13totoADP_15 partscase
14allallDETPronType=Tot15 partsdet
15partspartNOUNNumber=Plur10 roadsnmod
16ofofADP_17 Irelandcase
17IrelandIrelandPROPNNumber=Sing15 partsnmod
18werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 completedaux:pass
19completedcompleteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
20::PUNCT_21 onepunct
21oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 completedparataxis
22ofofADP_23 themcase
23themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 onenmod
24fromfromADP_25 Dublincase
25DublinDublinPROPNNumber=Sing19 completedobl
26isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 usedaux:pass
27stillstillADV_28 usedadvmod
28useduseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 completedconj
29..PUNCT_19 completedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1completepast · passivethe five great roads from Tara to all parts of IrelandDublindayvn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2usepresent · passivestillvn eat-39.1 «NP V»

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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