Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 23
Keating in his _History of Ireland_ gave another version in the seventeenth century.
Who acts: Keating · What happens: give · To what, where: version
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 (Keating), 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 | Keating | Keating | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 History | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 History | nmod:poss |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 History | punct |
| 5 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keating | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ireland | case |
| 7 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 History | nmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ireland | flat |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 version | det |
| 11 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 century | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 century | det |
| 14 | seventeenth | seventeenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 century | compound |
| 15 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Keating in Keating's History of Ireland | another version | century | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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