Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 30

But nothing turns upon this interpolation, so that it is likely that even the present form of the legend is pre-Christian-_i.e._ for Ireland, pre-Patrician, before the fifth century.

Who acts: nothing, form, present form · What happens: turn, be, form · To what, where: interpolation, legend

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 (nothing, form, present form), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 turns	cc
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 interpolation	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 interpolation	det
6	interpolation	interpolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 likely	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 likely	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 likely	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 likely	cop
12	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turns	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 pre-Christian	mark
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 form	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 form	det
16	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pre-Christian	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 legend	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 legend	det
20	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 form	nmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pre-Christian	cop
22	pre-Christian	pre-christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 likely	xcomp
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 pre-Christian	punct
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 i.e.	punct
25	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	22 pre-Christian	conj
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 Ireland	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 Ireland	case
28	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 i.e.	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pre-Patrician	punct
30	pre-Patrician	pre-patrician	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ireland	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 century	punct
32	before	before	ADP	_	35 century	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 century	det
34	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 century	amod
35	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 i.e.	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	nothing		this interpolation		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon interpolation=Trajectory
2	is	present	form			likely property	tree rules
3	is	present	the present form of the legend			pre-christian property	tree rules
4	form			the legend			nom form «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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