Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 17
"Oh, Coran of the many spells," he said, "and of the cunning magic, I call upon thy aid.
Who acts: many spells · What happens: say, call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many spells), 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 | _ | 8 spells | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 spells | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Coran | Coran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spells | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spells | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spells | det |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spells | amod |
| 8 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spells | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 spells | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 call | cc |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 magic | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 magic | det |
| 18 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 magic | compound |
| 19 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 call | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 magic | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 call | nsubj |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 aid | case |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 aid | nmod:poss |
| 25 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 call | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the many spells | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present | the many spells = spell | of the cunning magic; upon thy aid | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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