Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 2
The legend is not given in the Red Book, but from oral tradition by Mr. W. Rees, p. xxi.
What happens: not give · To what, where: legend, Red Book
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: 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 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 given | advmod |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Book | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Book | det |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Book | compound |
| 9 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 xxi | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 xxi | cc |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 tradition | case |
| 13 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tradition | amod |
| 14 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 xxi | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 W. | case |
| 16 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 W. | nmod:desc |
| 17 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tradition | nmod |
| 18 | Rees | Rees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 W. | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 p. | punct |
| 20 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 W. | flat |
| 21 | xxi | xxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | present · passive | the legend | the Red Book | xxi obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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