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Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 32

Then the maiden said: "Oh, mighty Conn, fighter of a hundred fights, the Druid's power is little loved; it has little honour in the mighty land, peopled with so many of the upright.

Who acts: maiden, mighty Conn, power · What happens: say, love, have, people · To what, where: power, little honour, mighty land · 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 (maiden, mighty Conn, power), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctpunctdiscoursepunctamodccomppunctapposcasedetnummodnmodpunctdetnmod:posscasensubj:passaux:passamodacl:relclpunctnsubjconjamodobjcasedetamodoblpunctaclcaseadvmodoblcasedetnmodpunctrootThenADVtheDETmaidenNOUNsaidVERB:PUNCT"PUNCTOhINTJ,PUNCTmightyADJConnPROPN,PUNCTfighterNOUNofADPaDEThundredNUMfightsNOUN,PUNCTtheDETDruidPROPN'sPARTpowerNOUNisAUXlittleADJlovedVERB;PUNCTitPRONhasVERBlittleADJhonourNOUNinADPtheDETmightyADJlandNOUN,PUNCTpeopledVERBwithADPsoADVmanyADJofADPtheDETuprightNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 saidadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 maidendet
3maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidnsubj
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5::PUNCT_10 Connpunct
6""PUNCT_10 Connpunct
7OhohINTJ_9 mightydiscourse
8,,PUNCT_7 Ohpunct
9mightymightyADJDegree=Pos10 Connamod
10ConnConnPROPNNumber=Sing4 saidccomp
11,,PUNCT_12 fighterpunct
12fighterfighterNOUNNumber=Sing10 Connappos
13ofofADP_16 fightscase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 hundreddet
15hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 fightsnummod
16fightsfightNOUNNumber=Plur12 fighternmod
17,,PUNCT_24 lovedpunct
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Druiddet
19DruidDruidPROPNNumber=Sing21 powernmod:poss
20's'sPART_19 Druidcase
21powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing24 lovednsubj:pass
22isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 lovedaux:pass
23littlelittleADJDegree=Pos24 lovedamod
24lovedloveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 Connacl:relcl
25;;PUNCT_27 haspunct
26ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 hasnsubj
27hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 saidconj
28littlelittleADJDegree=Pos29 honouramod
29honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing27 hasobj
30ininADP_33 landcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 landdet
32mightymightyADJDegree=Pos33 landamod
33landlandNOUNNumber=Sing27 hasobl
34,,PUNCT_35 peopledpunct
35peopledpeopleVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass33 landacl
36withwithADP_38 manycase
37sosoADV_38 manyadvmod
38manymanyADJDegree=Pos35 peopledobl
39ofofADP_41 uprightcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 uprightdet
41uprightuprightNOUNNumber=Sing38 manynmod
42..PUNCT_4 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe maidenthenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2love in a quotepresent · passivemighty Conn not said herethe Druid's powervn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3have in a quotepresentpowerlittle honourthe mighty landvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Patient
4people in a quoteparticiplethe mighty land not said herewith many of the uprighttree 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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