Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 19

The question is whether the method was adopted independently in Ireland, or was due to foreign influences.

What happens: be · To what, where: question, Ireland

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 adopted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 adopted	cop
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 adopted	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 method	det
6	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 adopted	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 adopted	aux:pass
8	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	independently	independently	ADV	_	8 adopted	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Ireland	case
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 adopted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 influences	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 influences	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 influences	cop
15	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 influences	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 due	fixed
17	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 influences	amod
18	influences	influence	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 adopted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 adopted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		the question		Ireland		adopt, independently property	tree rules
2	is	past						due foreign influences	tree rules

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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