Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 40
One of the most pathetic, beautiful, and typical scenes in Irish legend is the return of Ossian from Tir-nan-Og, and his interview with St. Patrick.
Who acts: typical scenes, Og · What happens: be, interview · To what, where: return, Tir nan
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 (typical scenes, Og), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 pathetic | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pathetic | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 pathetic | advmod |
| 5 | pathetic | pathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 One | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pathetic | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 return | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 return | cc |
| 10 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scenes | amod |
| 11 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 return | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 legend | case |
| 13 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 legend | amod |
| 14 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scenes | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 return | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 return | det |
| 17 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pathetic | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ossian | case |
| 19 | Ossian | Ossian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 return | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 nan | case |
| 21 | Tir | Tir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 nan | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tir | punct |
| 23 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 return | nmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Og | punct |
| 25 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 nan | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 interview | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 interview | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 interview | nmod:poss |
| 29 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Og | appos |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 Patrick | case |
| 31 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Patrick | nmod:desc |
| 32 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 interview | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | typical scenes in Irish legend | the return | Tir nan | of Ossian | tree rules | ||
| 2 | interview | Og | with Patrick St. | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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