Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 23

The historic existence of Connla seems also to be authenticated by the reference to him as Conly, the eldest son of Conn, in the Annals of Clonmacnoise.

Who acts: historic existence, reference, Connla · What happens: seem, authenticate, exist · To what, where: existence

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 (historic existence, reference, Connla), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 existence	det
2	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 existence	amod
3	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seems	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Connla	case
5	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 existence	nmod
6	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	also	also	ADV	_	6 seems	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 authenticated	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 authenticated	aux:pass
10	authenticated	authenticate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 seems	xcomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 reference	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reference	det
13	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 authenticated	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 authenticated	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 Conly	case
17	Conly	Conly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 authenticated	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 son	det
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 son	amod
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Conly	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Conn	case
23	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 son	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Annals	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 Annals	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Annals	det
27	Annals	annal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Conly	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Clonmacnoise	case
29	Clonmacnoise	clonmacnoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Annals	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the historic existence of Connla			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	authenticate	to-infinitive · passive	the reference	existence	as Conly and the Annals of Clonmacnoise	tree rules
3	exist		Connla			nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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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