Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 7
_Remarks_.--The Macdonald of Saddell Castle was a very great man indeed.
Who acts: Macdonald · What happens: be · To what, where: great man
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Macdonald), 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 | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Macdonald | det |
| 6 | Macdonald | Macdonald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Castle | case |
| 8 | Saddell | Saddell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Castle | compound |
| 9 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Macdonald | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 great | advmod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Remarks | appos |
| 15 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 man | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Macdonald of Saddell Castle | a great man | indeed property | tree 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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