Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 28
His "Darthula" is a similar cobbling of our present story.
Who acts: Darthula · What happens: be · To what, where: similar cobbling
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 (Darthula), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Darthula | nmod:poss |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Darthula | punct |
| 3 | Darthula | Darthula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cobbling | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Darthula | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cobbling | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cobbling | det |
| 7 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cobbling | amod |
| 8 | cobbling | cobbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 11 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cobbling | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cobbling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Macpherson's Darthula | a similar cobbling | of our present story | 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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