Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 27
It is now recognised that Macpherson had, or could have had, ample material for his _rechauffe_ of the Finn or "Fingal" saga.
Who acts: Macpherson · What happens: recognise, have · To what, where: record, ample material
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 (Macpherson), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recognised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognised | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 recognised | advmod |
| 4 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | Macpherson | Macpherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognised | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | aux |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 recognised | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 material | punct |
| 14 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 material | amod |
| 15 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 rechauffe | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rechauffe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rechauffe | amod |
| 19 | rechauffe | rechauffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 material | nmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Finn | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Finn | det |
| 23 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 _ | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Fingal | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Fingal | punct |
| 26 | Fingal | Fingal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Finn | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Fingal | punct |
| 28 | saga | saga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Fingal | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | present · passive | record | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Macpherson | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | could · perfect | ample material for Macpherson's _ rechauffe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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