Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 16

_Remarks_.--The "Story of Deirdre" is a remarkable instance of the tenacity of oral tradition among the Celts.

Who acts: Story · What happens: be · To what, where: remarkable instance

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Story), 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 instance	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	14 instance	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Story	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Story	punct
7	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 instance	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Deirdre	case
9	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Story	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Deirdre	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 instance	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 instance	det
13	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 instance	amod
14	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remarks	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tenacity	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tenacity	det
17	tenacity	tenacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 instance	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tradition	case
19	oral	oral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tradition	amod
20	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tenacity	nmod
21	among	among	ADP	_	23 Celts	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Celts	det
23	Celts	Celt	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 tradition	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Story of Deirdre	a remarkable instance				of the tenacity of oral tradition among the Celts	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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