Celtic Fairy Tales, III. Field of Boliauns., sentence 11
Dr. Joyce also gives the same etymology in _Irish Names and Places_, i. 183, where he mentions several places named after them.
Who acts: Joyce · What happens: give, mention, name · To what, where: same etymology, Irish Names, several places
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Field of Boliauns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joyce), 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 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Joyce | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Joyce | Joyce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 gives | advmod |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 etymology | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 etymology | amod |
| 7 | etymology | etymology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Names | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Names | amod |
| 11 | Names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 etymology | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Places | cc |
| 13 | Places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Names | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 183 | punct |
| 16 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 183 | nsubj |
| 17 | 183 | 183 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 gives | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mentions | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 mentions | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mentions | nsubj |
| 21 | mentions | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | conj |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 places | amod |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mentions | obj |
| 24 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 places | acl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 named | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Joyce Dr. | the same etymology | Irish Names and Places | 183 obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent etymology=Theme | ||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present | Joyce | several places | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | several places not said here | after Places = place | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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