Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 15
The physicians of Myddvai were historic personages, renowned for their medical skill for some six centuries, till the race died out with John Jones, _fl.
Who acts: physicians, race · What happens: be, renown, die out · To what, where: historic personages
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (physicians, race), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 physicians | det |
| 2 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 personages | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Myddvai | case |
| 4 | Myddvai | Myddvai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 physicians | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 personages | cop |
| 6 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 personages | amod |
| 7 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 renowned | punct |
| 9 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 personages | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 skill | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 skill | nmod:poss |
| 12 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skill | amod |
| 13 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 renowned | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 centuries | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 centuries | det |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 centuries | nummod |
| 17 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 skill | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 died | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 died | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 race | det |
| 21 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 died | nsubj |
| 22 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 personages | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 died | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 John | case |
| 25 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 died | obl |
| 26 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 John | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 _ | punct |
| 28 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 John | conj |
| 29 | fl | FL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 _ | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 personages | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the physicians of Myddvai | historic personages | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | renown | participle | historic personages not said here | for Physicians's medical skill for some six centuries | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die out | past | the race | with John and _ | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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