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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 completed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 birth | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 birth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roads | det |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 roads | nummod |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roads | amod |
| 10 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Tara | case |
| 12 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 roads | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 parts | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 parts | det |
| 15 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 roads | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 parts | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 completed | aux:pass |
| 19 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 completed | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Dublin | case |
| 25 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 completed | obl |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 used | aux:pass |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 used | advmod |
| 28 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 completed | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · passive | the five great roads from Tara to all parts of Ireland | Dublin | day | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | use | present · passive | still | vn 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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