Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 24
The Dublin Gaelic Society published an eighteenth century version in their _Transactions_ for 1808.
Who acts: Dublin Gaelic Society, versions · What happens: publish, transact · To what, where: eighteenth century version, Transactions
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 (Dublin Gaelic Society, versions), 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 | 4 Society | det |
| 2 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Society | compound |
| 3 | Gaelic | Gaelic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Society | compound |
| 4 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 published | nsubj |
| 5 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 version | det |
| 7 | eighteenth | eighteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 version | amod |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 version | compound |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 published | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Transactions | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Transactions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Transactions | punct |
| 13 | Transactions | transaction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 version | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 1808 | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 1808 | case |
| 16 | 1808 | 1808 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Transactions | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past | the Dublin Gaelic Society | a eighteenth century version | versions's Transactions | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Result | |||
| 2 | transact | versions = version | nom transaction «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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