Celtic Fairy Tales, X. Munachar and Manachar., sentence 13
_Remarks_.--Two ingenious suggestions have been made as to the origin of this curious jingle, both connecting it with religious ceremonies: (1) Something very similar occurs in Chaldaic at the end of the Jewish _Hagada_, or domestic ritual for the Passover night.
Who acts: Remarks, both · What happens: make, connect, occur · To what, where: Two ingenious suggestions, arriero, Chaldaic
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Munachar and Manachar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks, both), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 5 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 suggestions | nummod |
| 6 | ingenious | ingenious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 suggestions | amod |
| 7 | suggestions | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Remarks | acl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 origin | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 origin | det |
| 14 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 jingle | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 jingle | det |
| 17 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 jingle | amod |
| 18 | jingle | jingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 origin | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 connecting | punct |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 connecting | nsubj |
| 21 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Remarks | acl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 connecting | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 ceremonies | case |
| 24 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ceremonies | amod |
| 25 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 connecting | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 1 | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 1 | punct |
| 28 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 Something | nummod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 1 | punct |
| 30 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 occurs | nsubj |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 similar | advmod |
| 32 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Something | amod |
| 33 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Chaldaic | case |
| 35 | Chaldaic | Chaldaic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 occurs | obl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 end | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 end | det |
| 38 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 occurs | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Hagada | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Hagada | det |
| 41 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Hagada | amod |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 41 Jewish | punct |
| 43 | Hagada | Hagada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 end | nmod |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Hagada | punct |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 ritual | punct |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 ritual | cc |
| 47 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 ritual | amod |
| 48 | ritual | ritual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Hagada | appos |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 night | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 night | det |
| 51 | Passover | Passover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 night | compound |
| 52 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 ritual | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | Remarks not said here | Two ingenious suggestions | as the origin of this curious jingle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | connect | gerund | both | arriero | with religious ceremonies | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with ceremony=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | occur | present | Remarks | Chaldaic | at the end of the Jewish Hagada | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in chaldaic=Location |
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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