Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 41
The old faith and the new, the old order of things and that which replaced it, meet in two of the most characteristic products of the Irish imagination (for the Patrick of legend is as much a legendary figure as Oisin himself).
Who acts: things, legendary figure · What happens: replace, meet, be, order · To what, where: order, two, Patrick, things
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 (things, legendary figure), 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 faith | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 faith | amod |
| 3 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 new | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 new | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 faith | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 order | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 order | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 order | amod |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 faith | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 order | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replaced | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 replaced | mark |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 replaced | nsubj |
| 16 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 replaced | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 meet | punct |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replaced | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 meet | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 products | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 products | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 characteristic | advmod |
| 25 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 products | amod |
| 26 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 two | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 imagination | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 imagination | det |
| 29 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 imagination | amod |
| 30 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 products | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 Patrick | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 Patrick | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Patrick | det |
| 34 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 imagination | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 legend | case |
| 36 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 much | obl |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 much | cop |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 much | advmod |
| 39 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Patrick | acl:relcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 figure | det |
| 41 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 figure | amod |
| 42 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 much | nsubj |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 Oisin | case |
| 44 | Oisin | Oisin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Patrick | nmod |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 Patrick | nmod |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 Patrick | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | past | things | order | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | infinitive | things not said here | two of the characteristic products of the Irish imagination | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a legendary figure | the Patrick as Oisin legend not said here | of legend; much property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | order | things | nom order «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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