Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 26
Such a record is unique in the history of oral tradition, outside Ireland, where, however, it is quite a customary experience in the study of the Finn-saga.
Who acts: record · What happens: be, study · To what, where: history, customary experience, study, Finn saga
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 (record), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 record | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 record | det |
| 3 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unique | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unique | cop |
| 5 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 history | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 history | det |
| 8 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unique | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tradition | case |
| 10 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tradition | amod |
| 11 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 history | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ireland | punct |
| 13 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 14 Ireland | case |
| 14 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 unique | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 where | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 unique | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 experience | punct |
| 18 | however | however | ADV | _ | 25 experience | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 however | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 experience | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 experience | cop |
| 22 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 experience | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 experience | det |
| 24 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 experience | compound |
| 25 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unique | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 study | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 study | det |
| 28 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 experience | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 saga | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 saga | det |
| 31 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 saga | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Finn | punct |
| 33 | saga | saga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 study | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unique | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | such record | the history of oral tradition | outside Ireland; unique property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | record | quite customary experience | the study of the Finn saga | however property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | study | the Finn saga | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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