Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 7

_Parallels_.--Campbell's vi. and vii. are two variants showing how widespread the story is in Gaelic Scotland.

Who acts: Parallels, two variants · What happens: be, show · To what, where: two variants, widespread story, Gaelic Scotland

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: who acts (Parallels, two variants), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 variants	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 vi	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	7 vi	punct
5	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 vi	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Campbell	case
7	vi	vi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Parallels	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 vii	cc
10	vii	vii	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Parallels	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 variants	cop
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 variants	nummod
14	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 variants	acl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 widespread	advmod
17	widespread	widespread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showing	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Scotland	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 Scotland	case
22	Gaelic	Gaelic	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Scotland	compound
23	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 variants	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 variants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Parallels and Campbell's vi and vii	two variants		tree rules
2	show	gerund	two variants not said here	the widespread story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	is	present			Gaelic Scotland	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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