Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 29
They form a distinct section of the tales told by the Celts, and must be represented in any characteristic selection.
Who acts: analogies · What happens: form, tell, represent, section · To what, where: distinct section, tales, Celts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (analogies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 form | nsubj |
| 2 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 section | det |
| 4 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 section | amod |
| 5 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 form | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tales | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tales | det |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 section | nmod |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tales | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Celts | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Celts | det |
| 12 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 told | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 represented | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 represented | cc |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 represented | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 represented | aux:pass |
| 17 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 form | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 selection | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 selection | det |
| 20 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 selection | amod |
| 21 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 represented | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | analogies = analogy | a distinct section of the tales | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location section=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | the tales not said here | the Celts | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent celt=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | represent | must · passive | in any characteristic selection | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: in selection=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | section | the tales | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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