Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 34

It is possible too, I think, that the Homeric Hesperides and the Fortunate Isles of the ancients had a Celtic origin (as is well known, the early place-names of Europe are predominantly Celtic).

Who acts: interest, I, Homeric Hesperides, early place names · What happens: be, think, have, know, name · To what, where: Celtic origin, Europe

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 (interest, I, Homeric Hesperides, early place names), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 possible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 possible	cop
3	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 possible	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 possible	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Hesperides	det
11	Homeric	Homeric	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hesperides	compound
12	Hesperides	Hesperid	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 had	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Isles	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Isles	det
15	Fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Isles	amod
16	Isles	Isle	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Hesperides	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ancients	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ancients	det
19	ancients	ancient	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Hesperides	nmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 origin	det
22	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 origin	amod
23	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 Celtic	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 known	mark
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 known	aux:pass
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 known	advmod
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 Celtic	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 known	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 names	det
31	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 names	amod
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 names	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 place	punct
34	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 Celtic	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Europe	case
36	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 names	nmod
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 Celtic	cop
38	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	_	39 Celtic	advmod
39	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 had	parataxis
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 Celtic	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 possible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	interest		possible property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the Homeric Hesperides of the ancients and the Fortunate Isles	a Celtic origin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient
4	know	present · passive	the early place names of Europe not said here		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»
5	is	present	the early place names of Europe		celtic, predominantly property	tree rules
6	name			Europe		nom name «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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