Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 21
For the second episode is clearly the story of Polyphemus from the Odyssey which was known in Ireland perhaps as early as the tenth century (see Prof.
What happens: be, know, see · To what, where: story, Ireland, Prof
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 episode | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 episode | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 episode | amod |
| 4 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 6 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 8 story | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Polyphemus | case |
| 10 | Polyphemus | Polyphemus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Odyssey | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Odyssey | det |
| 13 | Odyssey | Odyssey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Polyphemus | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Ireland | case |
| 18 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 19 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 early | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 early | advmod |
| 21 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 see | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 century | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 century | det |
| 24 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 century | amod |
| 25 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obl |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 known | xcomp |
| 28 | Prof | prof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the story | for the second episode; of Polyphemus from the Odyssey; clearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the story | Ireland | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Prof | century | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prof=Stimulus |
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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